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>> The write up was not only very incomplete, but also quite
repetitive.  I hope that you will take the time to organize your
thoughts better in future weeks.  A clear write up will make it easier
for me to provide useful feedback to you.

>> Does Yiddish do the clause-final verb cluster thing?  The V2
option will get you part of the way there (and as close as you can get
with the customization system), but it won't restrict the non-finite
verbs to the end of the clause.  When it comes to editing tdl
directly, I encourage you to look at Antske's analyses in Germanic
CLIMB:

svn://lemur.ling.washington.edu/shared/matrix/branches/antske-germanic-development


Yiddish pronouns have markings for case, person, and number. We used a
nonhierarchical lex-type scheme to capture this. For example the
lex-type for a a first-person, nominative, singular pronoun would be
`1p-nom-sg-pron` and in general the lex-type of a pronoun is ``In the
first person 'mir' can either refer to the singular dative or the
plural nominative. In the first and second person plural pronouns, we
see accusative-dative leveling, since in both cases "undz" and "aykh"
are used respectively.

>> What do you mean by "non-hierarchical"?  How did you handle
the syncretism you describe?

Yiddish also exhibits agreement between third person pronouns and
nouns for [__TODO__]. So, the pronouns 'er' and 'zi' can be assigned
to a male or female person as well as inanimate objects that are
masculine or feminine; if these do not apply, the noun is neutral and
receives an 'es'.

>> The "agreement" between pronouns and their referents/antecedents
is not of interest to us, except that we want to model the PNG properties
of pronouns even if nothing else in the grammar agrees with them.

	a) `Du zingst.` You sing.
	b) `Du kenst zingen.` You can sing.
	c) `Du host gevolt kenen zingen.` You wanted to be able to sing.

>> Examples should be in IGT.  Don't rely on my ability to kinda
sorta make sense of Germanic languages.

    * The possessive determiner is never used with the plural case.

>> plural is not a case.

    * Case is usually expressed with affixes on nouns, determiners, and adjectives.
    * Nouns aren't usually inflected for case, though there are a few notable exceptions such as kinship terms (tate 'father', mame 'mother'):

>> These two statements seem to contradict each other wrt to case on nouns.

* Our singular determiners should be able to be used with plural words (the cats).

>> What does "should" mean here?

* Strong vs weak verb conjugations (unpredictable).
* Strong vs weak adjective declensions for neutral gender (depend on whether a determiner is used). 
* Strong vs weak noun declensions (weak is handled).

>> Morphophonology.  Abstract away from it.

  verb1_name=intrans-verb
  verb1_valence=intrans
    verb1_stem1_orth=zing
    verb1_stem1_pred=_zing_v_rel
    verb1_stem2_orth=red
    verb1_stem2_pred=_red_v_rel

>> Looks like you're not constraining the case on the subject of this one.

section=test-sentences
  sentence1_orth=the cat chases the dog
  sentence2_orth=the dogs sleep

>> ??
