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=====Alphabet===== | |||
The Lodeen alphabet in its own alphabetical order : | |||
A E I O U M N P T K F S L Y W | |||
====Alternate Standard==== | ====Alternate Standard==== | ||
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=====Modalities===== | =====Modalities===== | ||
There are no verbal modes as morphological marks, but modal adverbs to indicate modalities. Other verbal categories such as evidentiality, polarity... are also indicated by adverbs. For instance, negation is indicated with such an adverb, the modal adverb NEWIN. | There are no verbal modes as morphological marks, but modal adverbs to indicate modalities. Other verbal categories such as evidentiality, polarity... are also indicated by adverbs. For instance, negation is indicated with such an adverb, the modal adverb NEWIN. | ||
======''Negation''====== | |||
The modal adverb NEWIN is used for negation. It is placed before the subject and the conjugated verb. | |||
Ex. : NEWIN SE AYEYOL, "he didn't agree". | |||
======''Interrogation''====== | |||
On the other hand, questions are built with the interrogative particle KSA. For a yes/no question, it is simply placed at the beginning of the sentence, which is otherwise regular. For other types of questions, the particle is also placed at the beginning of the sentence, but a question word is added at the end. | |||
Ex. : KSA MOT KAWOK LAOFOL ? "do you like chocolate ?" ''lit. question you chocolate like ?'' | |||
Ex. : KSA KATO TON ? "where is the cat ?" ''lit. question cat where ?'' | |||
====Adjectives==== | ====Adjectives==== | ||
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===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||
====Constituents order==== | |||
The canonical order of complements is Subject-Complement-Object-Verb (SOV). This order is kept for example in negative and interrogative sentences. | |||
Lodeen mostly uses postpositions. | |||
====Head and complement order==== | |||
Adjectives usually appear after nouns and adverbs after verbs. They can appear in front for stylistic/pragmatic reasons, which sometimes lead to different shades of meaning depending on that placement. | |||
====Genitive construction==== | |||
The genitive construction is comprised of a Possessor noun, a Possessed noun, and a genitive pronoun agreeing with the possessor and placed right after it. The unit Possessor noun + genitive pronoun can appear either before or after the Possessed noun. | |||
[[Category:Languages]] | [[Category:Languages]] | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]] | |||
[[Category:Jokelangs]] | |||
[[Category:Auxlangs]] | |||
[[Category:Experimental languages]] | |||