Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions

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{{PAGENAME}} is my first constructed language, intended to be a head-initial, head-marking language with a plausible development from an erstwhile dependent-/double-marking language. The grammar and syntax has been heavily influenced by Semitic and Celtic languages, with some drawing from Japanese, German and other languages, while the aesthetics draws on Latin, Germanic, Greek, Celtic and Finnish, with hints of Khmer and [[w:Gyeongsang dialect|Gyeongsang Korean]]. The morphology is an experiment with grammatical non-concatenative morphology: as Celtic grammaticalizes initial consonant mutations, and Semitic vowel patterns, {{PAGENAME}} does so with tone patterns. The grammar is also an experiment on using inflections and agreement to show grammatical relations without case, hence the use of switch-reference on verbs and borderline polysynthesis. So I guess it ends up a tad more like some Native American languages. Other purposes of my language include mixing in un-English verb syntax, such as the use of optatives in subordinate clauses, and using principally non-finite subordinate clauses in the indicative.

Initially conceived as a masculine-feminine gender system, {{PAGENAME}} morphology now ~~inflects according to~~ a ~~much more elegant~~ four-gender (animate, inanimate, abstract, honorific) and three-number (singulative, collective, and plurative) system.

Initially conceived as a masculine-feminine gender system, {{PAGENAME}} morphology has been cleaned up, now inflecting for a four-gender (animate, inanimate, abstract, honorific) and three-number (singulative, collective, and plurative) system.

==Lexicon==

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 {{PAGENAME}} is my first constructed language, intended to be a head-initial, head-marking language with a plausible development from an erstwhile dependent-/double-marking language. The grammar and syntax has been heavily influenced by Semitic and Celtic languages, with some drawing from Japanese, German and other languages, while the aesthetics draws on Latin, Germanic, Greek, Celtic and Finnish, with hints of Khmer and [[w:Gyeongsang dialect|Gyeongsang Korean]]. The morphology is an experiment with grammatical non-concatenative morphology: as Celtic grammaticalizes initial consonant mutations, and Semitic vowel patterns, {{PAGENAME}} does so with tone patterns. The grammar is also an experiment on using inflections and agreement to show grammatical relations without case, hence the use of switch-reference on verbs and borderline polysynthesis. So I guess it ends up a tad more like some Native American languages. Other purposes of my language include mixing in un-English verb syntax, such as the use of optatives in subordinate clauses, and using principally non-finite subordinate clauses in the indicative.
-Initially conceived as a masculine-feminine gender system, {{PAGENAME}} morphology now inflects according to a much more elegant four-gender (animate, inanimate, abstract, honorific) and three-number (singulative, collective, and plurative) system.
+Initially conceived as a masculine-feminine gender system, {{PAGENAME}} morphology has been cleaned up, now inflecting for a four-gender (animate, inanimate, abstract, honorific) and three-number (singulative, collective, and plurative) system.
 ==Lexicon==