Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions

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A descendant of a language with developed noun and adjective cases, Themsaran preserves vestigial case marking. The nominal and adjectival endings are themselves diachronically derived from Proto-Talsmic case suffixes.

=====Irregular definiteness=====

The definite unpossessed inflection is a generalization from the accusative case, which marked the definite direct object in addition to adverbial uses, certain oblique objects and time expressions. The indefinite base endings diachronically stem from the genitive case (from its partitive meaning and frequency in prepositional phrases); the predicative adjective endings as well as most forms where possessive suffixes are attached, come from the nominative.

The definite unpossessed inflection is a generalization from the accusative case, which marked the definite direct object in addition to adverbial uses, certain oblique objects and time expressions. The indefinite base endings diachronically stem from the genitive case (from its partitive meaning and frequency in prepositional phrases); the predicative/possessum adjective endings as well as most forms where possessive suffixes are attached, come from the nominative.

Definiteness is required:

*in some time expressions (e.g. ''niéðām''/''mínām''/''crúomām'' (< *''nējƶā-mī'' etc.) "today"/"tonight"/"tomorrow", ''niéðāŧ'' ("that day"), ''crúomā/rā́zā/ħíngā/mínā'' "in the morning/at daytime/at dusk/at night")

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 A descendant of a language with developed noun and adjective cases, Themsaran preserves vestigial case marking. The nominal and adjectival endings are themselves diachronically derived from Proto-Talsmic case suffixes.
 =====Irregular definiteness=====
-The definite unpossessed inflection is a generalization from the accusative case, which marked the definite direct object in addition to adverbial uses, certain oblique objects and time expressions. The indefinite base endings diachronically stem from the genitive case (from its partitive meaning and frequency in prepositional phrases); the predicative adjective endings as well as most forms where possessive suffixes are attached, come from the nominative.
+The definite unpossessed inflection is a generalization from the accusative case, which marked the definite direct object in addition to adverbial uses, certain oblique objects and time expressions. The indefinite base endings diachronically stem from the genitive case (from its partitive meaning and frequency in prepositional phrases); the predicative/possessum adjective endings as well as most forms where possessive suffixes are attached, come from the nominative.
 Definiteness is required:
 *in some time expressions (e.g. ''niéðām''/''mínām''/''crúomām'' (< *''nējƶā-mī'' etc.) "today"/"tonight"/"tomorrow", ''niéðāŧ'' ("that day"), ''crúomā/rā́zā/ħíngā/mínā'' "in the morning/at daytime/at dusk/at night")