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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Basics=== | |||
====Constituent order==== | |||
Word order in Rówok tends in normal circumstances toward SOV, but it's really whatevs. | Word order in Rówok tends in normal circumstances toward SOV, but it's really whatevs. | ||
====Number==== | |||
There are three numbers in Rówok: | There are three numbers in Rówok: | ||
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[[#Verbs|Verbs]] are conjugated for all three numbers, as are [[#Participles|participles]], [[#Nouns|nouns]], and [[#Adjectives|adjectives]] declined. | [[#Verbs|Verbs]] are conjugated for all three numbers, as are [[#Participles|participles]], [[#Nouns|nouns]], and [[#Adjectives|adjectives]] declined. | ||
====Gender==== | |||
Gender in Rówok is complicated; there are indeed two types of vowel structure in a word (either '''-a/-e''' or '''-o/-u''', but there is no semantic association to either category, and adjectives do not change to agree with their head nouns in any way but [[#Number|number]] and [[#Nouns|case]]. | Gender in Rówok is complicated; there are indeed two types of vowel structure in a word (either '''-a/-e''' or '''-o/-u''', but there is no semantic association to either category, and adjectives do not change to agree with their head nouns in any way but [[#Number|number]] and [[#Nouns|case]]. | ||
The protolanguage [[Ruk]] did not have gender, and what little bits of gender there are in Rówok are new inventions picked up from contact with IE speakers. Even then, the language's internal vowel structure doesn't allow for the inherited endings to show in both vowel types. So '''-o''' can be added to an o-vowel word do emphasize a things masculinity, and '''-a''' can be added to an a-vowel word to emphasize its femininity, but there is no way to explicitly show the feminine in an o-vowel word and no way to show the masculine in an a-vowel word. | The protolanguage [[Ruk]] did not have gender, and what little bits of gender there are in Rówok are new inventions picked up from contact with IE speakers. Even then, the language's internal vowel structure doesn't allow for the inherited endings to show in both vowel types. So '''-o''' can be added to an o-vowel word do emphasize a things masculinity, and '''-a''' can be added to an a-vowel word to emphasize its femininity, but there is no way to explicitly show the feminine in an o-vowel word and no way to show the masculine in an a-vowel word. | ||
====Person==== | |||
There are the standard three persons in all [[#Number|numbers]], as well as an inclusive 1st person dual and plural. For more see [[#Pronouns|pronouns]]. | There are the standard three persons in all [[#Number|numbers]], as well as an inclusive 1st person dual and plural. For more see [[#Pronouns|pronouns]]. | ||
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the rabbit is being killed by the dogs | the rabbit is being killed by the dogs | ||
=== | ===Telicity=== | ||
Rówok has a tripartite telicity system. | |||
*Fully telic: for actions completed and followed through to the end; expressed with the [[#Telic|telic case]] | |||
*Non-telic: for uncompleted actions, for actions only done in part (shutting the door a little bit); expressed with the [[#Genitive|genitive case]] | |||
*Remotely telic: for actions not even attempted or begun, or for actions given the bare minimum of effort, sometimes with a pejorative sense, i.e. when the speaker wouldn't deign or dare to do something; expressed with the [[#Partitive|partitive case]] | |||
=== | In the [[#Negation|negative]] the telicity system is bipartitie, i.e. just non-telic and remotely telic. Furthermore, in [[#Colloquial Rówok|colloquial Rówok]] some affirmative actions with negative senses (stopping as no longer doing, forgetting as no longer remembering, etc.) can show non-telic objects by analogy. | ||
===Constituent phrases=== | |||
====Copula==== | ====Copula==== | ||
There is no copula in Rówok. | |||
====Noun phrase==== | |||
====Verb phrase==== | |||
====Sentence phrase==== | |||
===Negation=== | |||
===Wh- words=== | |||
====Dependent clauses==== | |||
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