Well, you might naively assume that since -ский becomes -ски, then all adjectives make their по- forms by simply leaving off the й. But in fact the adverb form clearly comes from somewhere else in the declension.
In fact, I'm not a "real" computational linguist, just a programmer who's interested in languages. And I rarely post to my lj blog. But you are more than welcome. I shall do likewise, provided you don't object to my using it nefariously for reading practice ;)
Re: not necessarily names of animals
Date: 2008-10-01 04:14 pm (UTC)In fact, I'm not a "real" computational linguist, just a programmer who's interested in languages. And I rarely post to my lj blog. But you are more than welcome. I shall do likewise, provided you don't object to my using it nefariously for reading practice ;)