Irregular verbs

These are the “irregular” verbs, which are mostly prefixing or copular.

The copulas are mostly suffixing, and all the other verbs include person prefixes, and agreement on suffixes for person. Tense and mood are expressed with complex stem alternations that are no longer 100% productive, and progressive is formed from a derivational stem, with no person prefixes.

NB: After adding in some additional morphological boundaries for some of the verbs, it should become obvious that some more simplification in amount of lexica is possible. Prefixing verbs often have multiple stems for separate tenses, and more or less get the same person prefixes in full and reduced paradigms. The only trick there is it requires more flag diacritics, to make sure that the prefix matches the suffix.

TODO: omg

LEXICON MA ma and related inflected forms.

Ah

ah is a verb meaning ‘to exist’, but can function as a copula. It is inflected in all tenses, but has long and short forms.

LEXICON Ah Inflections in tense.

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This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/affixes/irregularverbs.lexc