Tigol/Proto-Tigol: Difference between revisions

The applicative suffix, placed after the masculine singular imperative, is ''-t(e)n-''. The applicative promotes an oblique object of a verb to the direct object position (for example, ''thrāpâi'' 'fight (a battle)' > ''lōthrāpâi'' 'fight (someone)'), and downgrades the core object argument to an oblique argument. An optional applicative prefix may be used to qualify the relationship of the new object to the base verb (''vi-'' for instrument, ''ša-'' for location, ''lō-'' for comitation, ''mi-'' for goal or benefactive, and ''ran-'' for "about, concerning" and other miscellaneous objects). In the passive, the applicative finds much syntactic utility in constructing impersonal statements about an oblique object.