On Monday 06 August 2001 19:29, you wrote:
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> Hi Steven,<BR>
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> Some comments on your page....<BR>
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> What are the distinctions here? For nouns, you are listing different <BR>
> declension patterns, as if you intend each noun to be declined according
> <BR> to one of these patterns. But with adjectives, you list strong and
> weak <BR> declensions ... which in the case of adjectives are two different
> ways<BR> to decline the same adjective, having different meanings.
Arlie,
Thanks for taking a look at my work. It is most definitely a work in
progress. The reason the adjectives are the way they are is because I don't
know what I'm doing. {:-/)> I just put something there so I'd have a place
to start.
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> Within nouns, you make no distinction of gender. But the pattern for <BR>
> the same type of stem is different in different genders. (I'd quote<BR>
> examples, but I don't have the Gordon book beside me as I type this.)<BR>
You are correct. I am adding the gender as I go through each of the stem
types.
> Are you assuming that all numbers follow the same declension pattern?<BR>
I haven't examined the numbers yet. For now that's just a place holder.
> There's something wrong with your html... you have letters like o with
> tilde,<BR> which don't exist in Old Norse, and I'm unclear what letter you
> actually<BR> intended (would it be o with acute accent)?<BR>
Actually Gordon has a bar over the 'o'. I believe that is from the
Proto-Germanic. Gordon took his stem categories from the Proto-Germanic. I
couldn't find the 'o-bar' so I used the 'õ'. Same with the 'ï' for 'i-bar'.
I put the outline in a framset. You can find my current work here:
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~hattons/norse/grammar/outline-frameset.html
That should give you some idea where I'm going. One place that looks like it
will be some work to figure out is the adverbs. I believe they can be broken
down in a way similar to the nouns. I'm simply going through Gordon's
*Accidence* chapter and trying to map things out until I have a place for all
the words. I'm sure things will come to mind as I go along. I would very
much like to be able to link to and from a dictionary, but that is way down
the road. I would also like to add some descriptive text similar to that
found in Gordon. I can't take too much directly from his book lest I commit
plagiarism.
Steven