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====Conjugation==== | ====Conjugation==== | ||
From core nouns: "way-markers" → how the verb reflects the core noun: similarity, making, using | From core nouns: "way-markers" → how the verb reflects the core noun+case/adjective: table... "similarity", "making", "using" | ||
Only animate objects as agents. Abstract and inanimate as antipassive subjects: ''luwifo utelink nas'' ("beauty-of.yours un-eye-ful-makes me-with", your beauty makes me blind) vs. ''utelinken foe na'' (you are making me blind) | |||
Transitivity, animacy and cases: ''Ónzaitón dothee pof.'' (A man (ERG) is lifting a feather (ABS).), ''Bousón doth.'' (The man falls.) ''Bouson pof.'' (The feather (ABS) falls.). Obs! subject+object (& agent) agreement: ''Zaiton pof. (Ón)bouson dothee pof.'' (A feather rises. A man is dropping a feather.) | Transitivity, animacy and cases: ''Ónzaitón dothee pof.'' (A man (ERG) is lifting a feather (ABS).), ''Bousón doth.'' (The man falls.) ''Bouson pof.'' (The feather (ABS) falls.). Obs! subject+object (& agent) agreement: ''Zaiton pof. (Ón)bouson dothee pof.'' (A feather rises. A man is dropping a feather.) | ||
*Verb differences when agent-like or patient-like subjects | *Verb form differences when agent-like (he dances) or patient-like subjects (he fell)? ''latephó'' (he danced) vs. ''boush'' (he fell without ending) | ||
*agreeing OR circumfix! ''ónzait'''o'''n dothee pof'' vs. ''ónzaitón dothee su'' (the man is lifting him) | *agreeing OR circumfix! ''ónzait'''o'''n dothee pof'' vs. ''ónzaitón dothee su'' (the man is lifting him) | ||
**ending vowel ''o''? | **ending vowel ''o''? | ||
Who needs conjugation? People in formal situations! --> register! | |||
*Otherwise no 3SG ending, only pronouns | |||
History of ABS-ERG - Why Sceptrian has it, but Aoma uses NOM-ACC? | History of ABS-ERG - Why Sceptrian has it, but Aoma uses NOM-ACC? | ||
*Passive (~ Aoman 2nd passive... participle form) + causal form: *''Pózaiton pofos dothpe.'' (The feather was lifted by a man.) --> ''<s>p</s>ó'''n'''zaiton doth<s>p</s>e'''e''' pof<s>os</s>.'' | *Passive (~ Aoman 2nd passive... participle form) + causal form: *''Pózaiton pofos dothpe.'' (The feather was lifted by a man.) --> ''<s>p</s>ó'''n'''zaiton doth<s>p</s>e'''e''' pof<s>os</s>.'' | ||
====Tense==== | ====Tense==== | ||