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== Common features ==
== Common features ==
* AuxVOS, with V a verbal noun (from topic final word order in CWdm)
* AuxVOS, with V a verbal noun (from topic final word order in Classical Tseer)
* Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew/JBA]
* Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew/JBA]
* Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared to some extent by Anbirese)
* Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared to some extent by Anbirese)
* As in Modern Tseer, marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun
* Marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun
* always using im- or iN- for plurals (this got into Modern Windermere)
* construct state marked by a reflex of the CTseer 3sg.m possessive pronoun ''in''
* construct state marked by a reflex of the CWdm 3sg.m possessive pronoun ''in''
* Verb tenses work a lot like like in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic or Scottish Gaelic
* Verb tenses work a lot like like in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic or An Yidis
** "in VN" or "on VN" for imperfective aspect unmarked for tense
** "in VN" or "on VN" for imperfective aspect unmarked for tense
** "after VN" for perfective aspect
** "after VN" for perfective aspect
** an auxiliary can be used to mark tense, which is relative to conjunctions like "before": "before (future aux)", "after (past aux)"
** an auxiliary can be used to mark tense, which is relative to conjunctions like "before": "before (future aux)", "after (past aux)"

Revision as of 19:53, 22 April 2023

In Eevo, "Tergetian languages" (Terjedib or łynøñ Terjed) refers to naturally evolved vernacular descendants of Classical Tseer. This is misleading, as

Common features

  • AuxVOS, with V a verbal noun (from topic final word order in Classical Tseer)
  • Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew/JBA]
  • Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared to some extent by Anbirese)
  • Marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun
  • construct state marked by a reflex of the CTseer 3sg.m possessive pronoun in
  • Verb tenses work a lot like like in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic or Scottish Gaelic
    • "in VN" or "on VN" for imperfective aspect unmarked for tense
    • "after VN" for perfective aspect
    • an auxiliary can be used to mark tense, which is relative to conjunctions like "before": "before (future aux)", "after (past aux)"