Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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The classifier clitic was deleted while determining the downstep pattern of the noun. By corollary the absolute possessed forms have non-final downstep, and the unpossessed and conjunct forms have the same pattern (exceptions occur when the word ended in ''*ʔ''), the choice of which is lexically determined. | The classifier clitic was deleted while determining the downstep pattern of the noun. By corollary the absolute possessed forms have non-final downstep, and the unpossessed and conjunct forms have the same pattern (exceptions occur when the word ended in ''*ʔ''), the choice of which is lexically determined. | ||
Humans, uncountables and abstract nouns did not take a classifier, and hence was allocated to the "non-desinential tonic syllable" paradigm. | Humans, inalienables, uncountables and abstract nouns did not take a classifier, and hence was allocated to the "non-desinential tonic syllable" paradigm. | ||
Adjectives will agree with the tonal pattern of the nouns they modify. | Adjectives will agree with the tonal pattern of the nouns they modify. | ||