Modern Windermere: Difference between revisions

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Praveen's last idea for Tigal: auxiliary-based
Praveen's last idea for Tigal: auxiliary-based
===Auxiliaries===
===Auxiliaries===
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg " style=" text-align: center;"
|-
!|
!I!!thou!!he!!she!!it!!we (exc.)!!we (inc.)!!you (pl.)!!they
|-
!|present tense
|''por''||''poł''||''pon''||''pos''||''pot''||''pots''||''pob''||''pong''||''pam''
|}


==Syntax==
==Syntax==
AuxSVO or maybe AuxAVE if ergative
AuxSVO or maybe AuxAVE if ergative

Revision as of 02:47, 11 January 2018

Modern Windermere is the sole modern descendant of Classical Windermere.

Diachronics

Phonological history

Grammatical history

  • Aspect and trigger largely become derivational devices, cf. the development of PIE aspects and Semitic binyanim.
  • Grammaticalization of conjugated auxiliaries, leading to a tense system.

Phonology

ə > 0 after aspirated consonants

r > ɹ

Consonants

Vowels

Stress

Stress is almost always final, but can be non-final in function words.

Morphology

Praveen's last idea for Tigal: auxiliary-based

Auxiliaries

I thou he she it we (exc.) we (inc.) you (pl.) they
present tense por poł pon pos pot pots pob pong pam

Syntax

AuxSVO or maybe AuxAVE if ergative