On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 09:41:06PM -0400, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

> 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's really peculiar; I wonder what he was thinking of. Unless he's
using it as a symbol for a long vowel, even though he uses the usual
acute accent for that in other places.

> 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.

Why break down adverbs? Unless I've lost my memory, an adverb has only one
form ... though on the other hand, you may notice that form is often the same
as a neuter nominative/accusative singular form of a closely related adjective.
(I.e. it looks like adjectives become adverbs simply by using that neuter
sing. form and placing it as an adverb, just as in english we can generally
create adverbs from adjectives by adding -ly.)

> 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.

I suppose he's still in copyright, alas. Otherwise, you could simply include
the text but say you copied it from him. (Which is what I'm likely to do with
text from Zoega's dictionary, if one of my projects gets completed.)

--
Arlie

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