Re: Most developed conlang

Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>
> Here are some words from English which add -ally
> (< -al -ly) directly to the stem without an intermediate
> form in -al. Interestingly, all of these forms end in -ic,
> but it is not the case that a form in -ic must add -ally
> directly--fundamental, logical, musical, etc. (I snarfed
> these from the English Lexicon Project.)
[..snip..]

Without reading through the entire list, it seems that
the forms with |-al| are adjectives formed from a noun
ending in |-ic| (logic, logical; music, musical) while
those that go directly from |-ic| to |-ically| are already
adjectives in |-ic| (basic, basically; heroic, heroically).

--Ph. D.

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