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====Noun-adjective order==== | ====Noun-adjective order==== | ||
Noun-adjective order is even more controversial, due to even linguistically similar languages like [[Siwè]] and [[Adi Adi]] differing on specifically adjective placement. Thus, Tassinists generally agree to not speak of noun-adjective order, assuming instead a free constituent order, for the sake of collaboration and often friendship. | Noun-adjective order is even more controversial, due to even linguistically similar languages like [[Siwè]] and [[Adi Adi]] differing on specifically adjective placement. Thus, Tassinists generally agree to not speak of noun-adjective order, assuming instead a free constituent order, for the sake of collaboration and often friendship. | ||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
====Cases==== | |||
Proto-Tassinean has seven noun cases: '''nominative''', '''ergative''', '''absolutive''', '''dative''', '''genitive''', '''instrumentative''' and '''locative''', and they are all subject to change based on the four tenses: '''present''', '''imperfect''', and '''future''' and '''conditional''', and they are identified by prefixes and suffixes. | |||
{| class=redtable lightredbg style="text-align: center;" | |||
! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | !! colspan=7 | Case | |||
|- | |||
! Nominative !! Ergative !! Absolutive !! Dative !! Genitive !! Instrumentative !! Locative | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan=5 | Tense | |||
|- | |||
! Present | |||
| - || ''*soh-'' || ''*-vir'' || ''*-Nir'' || ''*-sə'' || rowspan=4 | ''*gid-'' || ''*-wē'' | |||
|- | |||
! Imperfect | |||
| ''*-zih<sup>?</sup>'' || ''*ma-'' || ''*-Nēŋ'' || ''*-avī'' || ''*-yrn'' || ''*-aw'' | |||
|- | |||
! Future | |||
| rowspan=2 | - || ''*me-'' || ''*-seh'' || rowspan=2 | ''*ga-'' || ''*-ȳs'' || ''*-hnō'' | |||
|- | |||
! Conditional | |||
| ''*miN-'' || ''*-vāha'' || ''*-fāsi'' || ''*-ewn'' | |||
|} | |||
====Noun phrase==== | |||
===Verb phrase=== | ===Verb phrase=== | ||
===Sentence phrase=== | ===Sentence phrase=== | ||