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I was having trouble understanding a specific type of noun pattern formation in Hebrew, and thought I was missing something fundamental. So I did some reading, read some more, and read a little more, and still was having trouble. So, thinking it was my comprehension deficiencies (as is usually the c...

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Is either of those in the Resources thread in the L&L Museum?

All set.

I also wanted to say; thanks to everyone for all the great info in this thread. Somebody ought to strain it all and publish a book.

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Cornelius wrote:The Handy-Dandy Hebrew Verb Chart © by Shawn Madden, Ph.D.
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Is either of those in the Resources thread in the L&L Museum?

LOL! TomHChappell, filling the Resources thread vicariously, one user at at time.

Thanks Astraios. That helps a lot. Did anyone ever answer jωt's question? Sorry, I should have helped jωt before I asked my question. I think most of the vowel patterns were detailed early in the thread, but for a more concise listing, try The Handy-Dandy Hebrew Verb Chart © by Shawn Madden, Ph.D. I...

Could anyone flesh out for me how Hebrew nouns are inflected to show possession through noun declension in formal and literary speech?

Resources For Writing A Grammar For Your Conlang:: Material based on Describing Morphosyntax by Thomas E. Payne: Thomas E. Payne's website: http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpayne/index.htm Outline for a balanced formal/functional Grammatical Description, by Tom Payne (PDF File): http://www.uoregon.edu/~tpay...

@ Maknas: Thank you very much! That clears things up nicely. Tricon root word formation seems a bit 'clunky' at first to an English speaker, but is actually very elegant once the nuts and bolts are revealed...truly fascinating! Cornelius: There's quite a strong analogy "shielding" the patterns from ...

Sorry if my question was a bit vague. Lets say I need to make a new word for "notepad". What prevents the word from taking a previously made word and making an inadvertant clone? For example, "katav", where the verb form 'katav' "He wrote" (3Sg Masc Past) is redundantly recreated in 'katav' "journal...

Hello gentlemen! This being my first post, let me start by saying thank you for providing such an thorough introduction and explanation of the workings of Triconsonantal Root-based languages. This thread is fascinating! I am a bit stumped on one aspect of the root-and-pattern morphology - namely the...