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==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Level of words=== | |||
There is only one more grammatical category: the level of words, which is the main building block of Lemizh syntax. A word can be of first level (the highest), of second level (the next highest), of third level (still one level lower) and so on; there is no limit for the number of levels, but non-positive word levels (zero, −1, etc.) are forbidden. | |||
The first word in a sentence (the main predicate) is of first level by definition. The level of the next word is determined by the main predicate's accent and by the type of pause between the two words, the level of the third word is determined by the accent of the second and the pause between these two, and so on. | |||
Here is the complete list of pause/accent combinations. (The meaning of an agentive level will be explained later.) | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="2" | Following pause !! rowspan="2" | Accented vowel !! rowspan="2" | Type of accent !! rowspan="2" | The level of the next word is … | |||
|- | |||
! in speech !! in writing | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="4" | barely audible || rowspan="4" | space || rowspan="2" | inner case || low || lower by 1 | |||
|- | |||
| high || lower by 1, and agentive (<sup>A</sup>) | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2" | outer case || low || equal | |||
|- | |||
| high || higher by 1 | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="4" | a bit longer || rowspan="4" | comma ('''·''') || rowspan="2" | inner case || low || higher by 2 | |||
|- | |||
| high || higher by 3 | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2" | outer case || low || higher by 4 | |||
|- | |||
| high || higher by 5 | |||
|- | |||
| the longest || full stop ('''∶''') || inner case || low || none; end of sentence | |||
|} | |||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
===Noun phrases=== | ===Noun phrases=== | ||
===Verb phrases=== | ===Verb phrases=== | ||
===Sentence phrases=== | ===Sentence phrases=== | ||
===Dependent clauses=== | ===Dependent clauses=== | ||
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