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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
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===Nouns=== | |||
Nouns are inflected for five cases - nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and the instrumental. In addition to this they are inflected for grammatical number. This is carried out by affixes to the stem of the word which is a predominantly agglutinative process wherein the case marker is first attached and thereafter the grammatical number. Some fusion of elements can be detected in the language, thus providing an alternate analysis of e.g. the plural genitive ''-un'' as a single morpheme instead of one composed of ''-o''(genitive) + ''-en''(plural). | |||
:''arak, arax, arako, araká, arakem'' | |||
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Particles | Particles | ||
Derivational morphology | Derivational morphology | ||
petakun = pet + -ak, +o (gen) + en (pl) -> petakuen -> petakun | |||
meret = mer+ -et (collective noun.) | |||
also, s: acc | o: gen | ah: dat. | em: instr| | |||
petaken, petaksen, petakun, petakahn, petakemen | |||
lägg till inkl. o exkl. pronomina | |||
´ = spiritus post-vocalis asper | |||
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===Derivational morphology=== | |||
The {{PAGENAME}} language features a very robust derivational system enabling the transformation of nouns to verbs and back again (shifting syntactic category), the diminution of nouns, verbs and adverbs are all possible and likewise so with augmentation. | |||
====Diminutives and augmentatives==== | |||
Diminutives are handled for animate words with the suffix ''ak''. For naturally inanimate nouns this becomes ''ek''. | |||
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:''pet'' —> ''petak'' (bird, little bird) | |||
:''ger'' —> ''gerek'' (story, saying~proverb) | |||
====Collective nouns==== | |||
{{PAGENAME}} also features ways to form a collective noun; this is extensively used for concepts such as a puddle (of water), days, groups of animal and such. Take for example the word ''ter'' ('a moment') from which the {{PAGENAME}} word for a day ''teret'' is derived. It can be broken down into ''ter'' and the inanimate collectivising morpheme ''-et''. | |||
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Now that we have ger (story) ->gerek (a little story, a saying) -> gereket (sayings, proverbs) we can start translating the bible, FOR TEH LULZ | |||
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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||