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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Bases=== | ===Bases=== | ||
===Semantic Particles and | Bases are the equivalent of verb, nouns and pronouns in other languages. There is no lexical distinction into classes of nouns and verbs, with every base able to be used both in predicates and as subjects without change in meaning. This is distinguish from the type of extensive zero-derivation that English employs, whereby the verbal and nominal meanings relate to each other unpredictably und must therefore be regarded as lexical units in their own right (for example, a spy spies but a fish doesn't fish and a burger doesn't burger) The relationship between the verbal and nominal meanings of Balog bases is always that the verbal meaning is "be [noun]" and the nominal meaning is always "entity that [verb]s". | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
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! Base !! Nominal Translation !! Verbal Translation | |||
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| '''balog''' || orc || be an orc | |||
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| '''dauz''' || tree || be a tree | |||
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| '''magaz''' || one that falls over || fall over | |||
|- | |||
| '''dek''' || one that dies without obvious cause || die without obvious cause | |||
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| '''bad''' || large one || be large | |||
|} | |||
===Semantic Particles and Prefixes=== | |||
Semantic particles and prefixes modify bases to give them new shades of meaning. For example, the Tense-Aspect-Mood (TAM) particles optionally stand before | |||
===Syntactic Clitics=== | ===Syntactic Clitics=== | ||
====Essive==== | ====Essive==== | ||