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The relay is progressing quite quickly! Unfortunately Unleashy failed to pass the torch in time, so [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Dyrel|here]] it is. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 02:02, 21 July 2015 (CEST) | The relay is progressing quite quickly! Unfortunately Unleashy failed to pass the torch in time, so [[Fourth_Linguifex_Relay/Dyrel|here]] it is. [[User:IlL|IlL]] ([[User talk:IlL|talk]]) 02:02, 21 July 2015 (CEST) | ||
== Prototyping new conlang - Vadi == | |||
This is very much in the early stages. All I know conculture-wise is the people call themselves the ''Varan'', and the language is ''Vadi''. Now to figure out what that ''va-'' morpheme is all about. | |||
Been playing around with the case system, I still seem to have an aversion to nouns with elaborate case systems, and I'm using Latin as a frame of reference. So far, 3 cases, 2 marking core arguments (Agent vs Patient), and a genitive. A two-way gender system based on animacy marks the core arguments' roles the following way: the least-marked case for animates is the agent, whereas for inanimates, they are the most prominently marked, and for patient roles it's vice-versa. Five declensions are realized based on stem endings and/or animacy; for example, Class I nouns are for animate nouns that take an infix ''-in-'' to mark the patient role, whereas Class II nouns are reserved for inanimates whose stems end in ''-r''. Class III-V include both animates and inanimates; Class III is also called the ''-ri-'' Declension because the marked roles have the suffix ''-ri'' in the plural forms, Class IV (aka the ''-d-'' Declension) because the stem of the marked role terminates with ''-d-'' plus some other submorpheme, and finally Class IV (the ''s-'' Declension), whose plural stems end with the submorpheme ''-s-''. | |||
I have no idea how to come up with a diachronic explanation of how the noun class system came to be. Maybe those submorphemes were at one time noun classifiers but phonological erosion and other syncreticism happened. | |||
The morphosyntactic alignment looks like it's going to be a Split-S system, with Dative subjects used for experiential and cognitive verbs. Ok, I'm babbling, but what I did was do just that....babble until I came up with some random nonsense words I liked, then I started slicing them up to come up with a plausible morphology. The sample sentences I was working with (with some modifications already): | |||
*"Isasro ka munek ki bára emtol yal" = He did not hit or shout at any visitor yesterday. | |||
*"Manetór ki pidá daşélek mi" = He was indeed stung from the poison ivy/He experienced pain (from) the poison plant indeed. | |||
*"Manjate ki nihlave" = He likes apples. | |||
*"Os kánáto bihók şilmá" = I sow wheat every day. | |||
*"Os kánárato bihók şilmá" = I used to sow wheat every day. | |||
Ok, gotta go to bed soon. I'll transfer my prototype verb template from my Word doc here tomorrow or whenever I get the chance. |