Morphology Be prepared to give brief answers to the following questions. A number of the 3rd Declension Latin nouns we have examined show syncretism between the dative and ablative plural forms in their paradigm, with identical forms both in -ibus.
Neuter nouns show syncretism between the nominative and accusative.
Syncretism parallel to that between the dative and ablative often does not take place in the singular. Historically, English dive was a weak verb that formed its past by regular -ed suffixation. For many speakers today, dive has become a strong verb, with the past tense dove. When presented with pairs of present and perfect stems for a given Latin verb, be prepared to identify each of the processes involved in forming the perfect stem from the present stem that should be indicated somewhere in a sort handle, if one were sorting a number of such pairs into types. Distinguish between phonological processes and morphological processes.