Tergetian vernaculars

In Eevo, "Tergetian languages" (Terjedib or łynøñ Terjed) refers to naturally evolved vernacular descendants of Classical Tseer. This is ironic, as Wen Dămea was called the Tergetian empire by some peoples in ancient times.

Common features

• AuxVOS, with V a verbal noun (from topic final word order in Classical Tseer)
• Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew/JBA]
• Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared to some extent by Anbirese)
• Marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun
• construct state marked by a reflex of the CTseer 3sg.m possessive pronoun in
• Verb tenses work a lot like like in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic or Scottish Gaelic
  • "in VN" or "on VN" for imperfective aspect unmarked for tense
  • "after VN" for perfective aspect
  • an auxiliary can be used to mark tense, which is relative to conjunctions like "before": "before (future aux)", "after (past aux)"