Combining stem and inflection for regular formations
Invidual analytical requirements have specific rquirements for combining stems and inflectional patterns.
Substantives
For nouns, pronouns and adjectives, just stemstring(stem) * ending(rule)
Adverbs are not yet implemented.
Verbs
The function regularverbclass
is true if it is possible to form all principal parts from a single stem. For these classes, the function principalpart
then composes a principal part for a stem + rule combination. This includes reduplication and augment for tense-mood combinations that require that.
If the stem is not sufficient for generating a full set of principal parts, then the functions takesreduplication
and takesaugment
are used to determine whether the string recorded for the stem should be further modified using the reduplicate
and augment
functions from the PolytonicGreek
package.
At this point,