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==Grammar== | |||
Tsan exhibits what’s called [[Tsan#Predicate/argument flexibility|predicate/argument flexibility]], meaning that all content words equivalent to English verbs, nouns and adjectives, can fill the role as predicate or as argument. This is achieved through that the basic form of the content word always corresponds with a predicative expression. The language’s [[w:word order|word order]] is as such very free. | |||
In essence, this feature makes the language seem to lack nouns or verbs, or rather lexical categories. Nevertheless, all content words may be conjugated and form verbal phrases, just like they may modify each other and all have one of three [[w:grammatical gender|grammatical gender]]s; ''masculine'' ({{sc|M}}), ''feminine'' ({{sc|F}}) or ''neuter'' ({{sc|N}}). | |||
The genders are not marked, but rather a form of natural gender: women are feminine, men and males are masculine, and everything else is neuter. The marking on the content words congruate with the gender of the subject, and is simply marked as the same as, ''homus'' ({{sc|HO}}), or different to, ''heterus'' ({{sc|HE}}), the subject. | |||
:''Note to self: Topic rather than subject? Would make things easier and more intuitive.'' | |||
===Terminology=== | |||
*'''Predicate''' – the part of a sentence or a clause containing, in the English translation, a verb and stating something about the subject. For example ''went home'', in ''John went home''. | |||
*'''Argument''' – any of the nouns or noun phrases directly related to the predicate. | |||
:*'''Subject''' – a noun or noun phrase that is the element about which the rest of a clause is predicated. For example ''John'' in ''John went home''. | |||
:*'''Object''' – a noun or noun phrase that is the element governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition. For example ''home'' in ''John went home''. | |||
*'''Dependent argument''' – a dependent argument is marked on the predicate in the language, as an affix, similar to conjugation. For example ''–ó'' in ''Cambió pasaporte''. | |||
*'''Independent argument''' – an independent argument is not marked on the predicate, such as ''él'', in ''él cambió pasaporte''. | |||
*'''Content word''' – equivalent to a verb or a noun in Tsan linguistic terminology. | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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