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== Textual witnesses == | == Textual witnesses == | ||
Early Old Thean | Early Old Thean | ||
* An epic poem, The Tale of the | * An epic poem, The Tale of the Alchemist | ||
Late Old Thean | Late Old Thean | ||
* The Code of ___ | * The Code of ___ | ||
== Morphology == | == Morphology == | ||
=== The Early Old Thean auxiliary === | === The Early Old Thean auxiliary === |
Revision as of 04:17, 13 December 2024
Textual witnesses
Early Old Thean
- An epic poem, The Tale of the Alchemist
Late Old Thean
- The Code of ___
Morphology
The Early Old Thean auxiliary
Syntax
The Proto-Trans-Sarnathian word order was T1 S T2 V O. In Old Thean, T2 becomes cliticized or lost. In Early Old Thean, T1 is the only word that inflects in a sentence.
In later OTh, T1 becomes an invariable tense or discourse particle
A T1 particle of some sort might be mandatory in Classical Thean but not in Modern Thean