Third declension Strategy
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:53 pm
Salvete,
I'm currently debating which is the most efficient processing strategy for third declension nouns.
The problem:
Third declension neuter forms differ significantly from the masculine / feminine forms in both the consonant and -i- stems. What information should we internalise in order to reconstruct the entire declension and determine the correct gender to render modifiers in?
The various rules in dooge's text for dropping, substituting, and adding of characters seems rather pointless considering we need to recall more than the nominative form in order to decline anyway.
There are key parts of each noun which must be known in order to decline and process it in a sentence.
(1) The Gender
(2) The stem (or a case which reveals how to decline it, gen plural for ex).
(3) The nominative form.
I can see two possible ways of doing this.
(1) Internalising the nominative singular form, the stem, and the gender.
(2) Internalising the nominative singular and plural, and the genitive plural.
Or perhaps there is a simpler method of acquiring these nouns?
I'm currently debating which is the most efficient processing strategy for third declension nouns.
The problem:
Third declension neuter forms differ significantly from the masculine / feminine forms in both the consonant and -i- stems. What information should we internalise in order to reconstruct the entire declension and determine the correct gender to render modifiers in?
The various rules in dooge's text for dropping, substituting, and adding of characters seems rather pointless considering we need to recall more than the nominative form in order to decline anyway.
There are key parts of each noun which must be known in order to decline and process it in a sentence.
(1) The Gender
(2) The stem (or a case which reveals how to decline it, gen plural for ex).
(3) The nominative form.
I can see two possible ways of doing this.
(1) Internalising the nominative singular form, the stem, and the gender.
(2) Internalising the nominative singular and plural, and the genitive plural.
Or perhaps there is a simpler method of acquiring these nouns?