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===== The Nominal Heirarchy ===== | ===== The Nominal Heirarchy ===== | ||
Nankôre nouns, at first glance, appears very simple. They are not inflected for case, gender, nor do adpositions indicate their directional or positional relationships. Number is distinguished only in pronouns. Nevertheless, the nominal system has a complex heirarchy of animacy, which although unmarked, is a semantic feature of the noun and pronoun. Where a given NP falls within the animacy heirarchy must be memorized in order to use the verbal inverse prefix ''tā(h)-'' correctly (see section on [[Nankôre#Verbs|Verbs]] regarding inverse marking). | |||
The Nankôre nominal heirarchy has been traditionally classified along two axes, the first marking category, and the second marking levels of heirarchy within a given category. Animacy along categories decrease as one traverses from Supernatural/Phenomonological onwards towards the Ephemeral. Animacy decreases as one goes down the Level axis. The heirarchy is arranged according to the following table: | The Nankôre nominal heirarchy has been traditionally classified along two axes, the first marking category, and the second marking levels of heirarchy within a given category. Animacy along categories decrease as one traverses from Supernatural/Phenomonological onwards towards the Ephemeral. Animacy decreases as one goes down the Level axis. The heirarchy is arranged according to the following table: | ||