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Grammatical changes from Classical Netagin include: | Grammatical changes from Classical Netagin include: | ||
* SAuxVO word order | * SAuxVO word order | ||
* Loss of grammatical gender | |||
* Loss of verbal binyan inflection, and use of verb-derived nouns (both old verbal nouns and less direct derivations, including reborrowings from CNtg) as verbs | * Loss of verbal binyan inflection, and use of verb-derived nouns (both old verbal nouns and less direct derivations, including reborrowings from CNtg) as verbs | ||
* Relative clauses are resumptive | * Relative clauses are resumptive |
Revision as of 22:27, 16 September 2021
Modern Vernacular Netagin (VNtg) exists in a state of diglossia with Modern Classical Netagin. It exists in a sprachbund with Modern Windermere, Gwnax and other Bjeheondian languages.
Grammatical changes from Classical Netagin include:
- SAuxVO word order
- Loss of grammatical gender
- Loss of verbal binyan inflection, and use of verb-derived nouns (both old verbal nouns and less direct derivations, including reborrowings from CNtg) as verbs
- Relative clauses are resumptive
- As a result of Jespersen's cycle, negation uses a negative absolutive marker dean derived from the Classical connegative determiner de.
- SEA style serial verbs
- Emphatic -nk (< miek)
Modern Netagin people usually have Classical Netagin names
This article treats Bjeheondian Netagin; Tumhanian Netagin is tonal or Khmerized.