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* Derivational morphology | * Derivational morphology | ||
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=== Alignment === | |||
The morphosyntactic alignment of the conlang is active-stative. (A=SA, O=SO ) It is fluid-S, having a prefix for volition. The language has many voices, including but not limited to active and stative, though impersonal verbs can’t have a stative voice. | |||
=== Case === | |||
Nouns do not have case, but have a patientative prepositions. Many pronouns, though, have a a agentstive snd patientative case, which the “patientative” is also used in indirect objects. | |||
=== Roles, Voices, & Cases === | |||
NP’s have roles, such as instrument, which determine where its position, such as subject, is in a sentence; based on voice, such as the instrumental voice. | |||
While case for nouns doesn’t exist, pronouns have a agentative and a non-agentative case. Prepositions also do some work for showing the roles of the nouns, such as being used for all indirect objects. There’s even an optional preposition for the direct object. | |||
The default voice, active, is null, while the stative voice has a suffix for it. Other more complicated and poetic voices, such as the instrumental, are derived from putting the corresponding preposition before the sentence, included with the stative suffix. Sometimes, stative voice may also be written including the optional direct object preposition with the suffix. | |||
=== Verb types/structures === | |||
* transitive verbs [A & O] | |||
* intransitive verbs [S] | |||
* unergative verbs [As] | |||
* unaccusative verbs [Os] | |||
* impersonal verbs [avalent] | |||
Many transitive verbs have both unergative and unaccusative versions. While some are unergative when they have no volition prefix (underlyingly), and while some are unaccusative, some may even be ambiguous. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||