User:Ceige/SuperSAE

Guiding Inspirations &al.

• French and its interesting colloquialisms and grammar
• German and its grammatical similarities to French
• Luxemburgish and its grammar, phonology and orthography
• Dutch
• English
• Italian
• und so weiter

cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Average_European - note stuff like mandatory personal pronouns kick the bucket in some colloquial phrasings.

Phonology

• /r/ is probably flexible with a guttural pronunciation being prestigious in normal speech. /r/ after vowels can have reduced salience as a consonant.
• A bunch of vowels - I need to check my phone for this.
• p b f v m t d (ts? dz?) s z l r n (č š (d)ž?) j k g (x? h?)

Orthography

• ch vs tch vs sch vs tsch vs j vs g vs tsch?
• VsV = /VzV/
• Double letters have a role; double vowels will be harder
• a ae e è é ê ei ie i ui ue u ou o ò ó ô oe ue oa ai au eu? úûùíìîï? äëö? e = /E/ and /ə/

Grammar in General

• Suppletion is dope.

The Noun Phrase

• Adjectives can go before and after the noun
• Articles come before the noun phrase
• Nouns may mark for male, female, and plural at least; but not necessarily on the noun
• Prepositions dominate
• There may or may not be a genitive -'s clitic, and gender/plurality marking may be neutralised for predicate adjectives (both are fairly Germanic though despite French's importance here).

The Verb Phrase

• The past tense is formed with "have + [verb past participle]"
• Most verb forms (including things like the future) use auxiliary verbs (the future should probably have a w/v- onset, cf. werden, will, vais)

• There is still a series of directly inflected verbs though using suffixes just to show this stage existed at some point. Cf. French and German.

• Suppletive verbs are cool. vais vs allons
• Past participles are formed with -t
• Present participles are formed with -ant or -and; the jury is still out.

• There is at least a distinction between singular and plural verbs (currently thinking: -e and -on(s) as a compromise from -ons/-ez/-ent and -en?)

Pronominal Problems

• French has je moi me mons distinction; German has ich mich mir mein distinction. Still a lot of grammatical relics for both and the same number too, but with caveats...