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Word list for related verbal forms
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minus273
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Speaks: Mandarin*, English^C2, French
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24 October 2009 at 10:44pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

In Russian you should always try to learn both the imperfective and the corresponding perfective verb while you are at it, and so forth.

I'm learning Tangut, a language with a complex writing system like Chinese. In Tangut, almost every transitive verb has two stems, depending on the person of the arguments (agent 3SG patient 1SG requires a stem, agent 1SG patient 3SG requires another). The stem formation is phonologically transparent but graphically random (they are related, but not in a systematic way) - so I have to memorize the two graphical forms of the verb.

How should I best organize the columns in the word list? Shall I put the two verbs on two consecutive rows or in one row? Or better, shall I scatter them with one somewhat later in the list, so that I won't be confused with the forms?

Thanks for your replies.

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