Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Past Participles in "-т"/reply (2)

It would be needed for all types of verbs, because the existence of "-т" participles doesn't have anything to do with the meanings or morphological categories of the verb they are derived from - it's all simply a phonological principle of dissimilation. If the stem of the verb ends in an "н" or "њ", a "-т" suffix is used rather than the expected "-н" one, to avoid the less euphonious nasal repetition (although the corresponding participle suffixes don't quite work this way in, for example, BCS). In the meanwhile, the presence or absence of "н" or "њ" as a final consonant in the stem is as one would expect, arbitrary.

Anyway, the "-т" participles are the following:

1. "-aт" for "-a" verbs

2. "-aт" for "-e" verbs (if perfective - otherwise "-ет")

3. "-eт" for "-и" verbs.

I'm sorry, but I don't think I could make the change myself because I don't know how to write if-then statements (or whatever mechanism these things rely on). I also don't know where to create the tap=1 parameter.