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Laceyiam grammar is heavily inflected, with many different inflecting categories for nouns, verbs, and pronouns. The other two traditional parts of speech, particles and numerals, are not considered inflected. An analysis of parts of speech following English terms is possible, but for sake of clarity it's better to treat adjectives and adverbs as particular verbs and adpositions and conjunctions as particles. | Laceyiam grammar is heavily inflected, with many different inflecting categories for nouns, verbs, and pronouns. The other two traditional parts of speech, particles and numerals, are not considered inflected. An analysis of parts of speech following English terms is possible, but for sake of clarity it's better to treat adjectives and adverbs as particular verbs and adpositions and conjunctions as particles. | ||
===Nouns - | ===Nouns - Dayandairai=== | ||
Nouns, or '' | Nouns, or ''dayandairai ''(sing. ''dayandaira''), are one of the two main open classes in Laceyiam. They are declined for two numbers - singular (''paṃlinað'') and plural (''paṃdaniøgur'') and eleven cases: | ||
* '''Direct''' (''klīṣādemin''): core case used for the main argument of a verb (the one the verb agrees with); in addition, many particles require direct case nouns. Direct singular is the citation form of all nouns. | * '''Direct''' (''klīṣādemin''): core case used for the main argument of a verb (the one the verb agrees with); in addition, many particles require direct case nouns. Direct singular is the citation form of all nouns. | ||
* '''Ergative''' (''tairdemin''): core case used for the agent of a verb in patientive, benefactive, antibenefactive, or locative voice. | * '''Ergative''' (''tairdemin''): core case used for the agent of a verb in patientive, benefactive, antibenefactive, or locative voice. | ||