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AuxSVO or maybe AuxAVE if ergative
AuxSVO or maybe AuxAVE if ergative


:'''''Mor brits făde clăbüh te tsăgtsog.'''''
:'''''Mor brits căde clăbüh te tsăgtsog.'''''
:PRES-1SG speak about love and hate
:PRES-1SG speak about love and hate
:''I speak of love and hate.'''
:''I speak of love and hate.'''

Revision as of 02:53, 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 mor moł mon mos mot mots mob mong mam

Syntax

AuxSVO or maybe AuxAVE if ergative

Mor brits căde clăbüh te tsăgtsog.
PRES-1SG speak about love and hate
I speak of love and hate.'