<!>The Historical Linguistics Thread (2014-09-29 10:10:47)
The Historical Linguistics Thread
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, Alkali Metal, Norman, United States
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How would you prefer to set up the principle parts of verbs? For adjectives and nouns you only need two or three forms to know for certainly how they decline, but for Greek verbs you need six, and it's not just a problem of endings. It should be easier with Latin (four forms for verbs, two for nouns, three for adjectives), but for Sanskrit it becomes much more difficult- I don't think anybody has tried to create a principle part system for Sanskrit verbs; we'd be better off just making a digital version of Whitney's Roots, Verb-Forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language.