Parts of speech- Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Modifiers, Conjunctions,
Adjunctions, Particles
Level 1-
The default sentence structure is (Agent)-Verb-(Patient). The agent can be
omitted for passive sentences, or the patient for intransitive verbs.
There
are no declinations or conjugations.
Modifiers (adjectives, adverbs) are all listed after the word they modify.
Case particles (agent, patient, source, beneficiary, comitative,
instrumental, locative) are placed immediately before the noun they apply
to; they're optional for agent/patient, but including them allows you to
vary the phrase order.
Tense and aspect are indicated by temporal particles placed immediately
before the verb. The default is present imperfective.
That should be more than enough to construct coherent sentences capable of
expressing whatever you want, although the results may not be elegant. So,
built over that there's Level 2-
Prepositional particles placed immediately before a noun form
modifier-phrases that act exactly like single-word modifiers.
Conjunctions are placed between clauses, nouns or noun phrases, and verbs
or
verb phrases.
Adjunctive clauses may be placed before or after the clause they modify;
if
after, the two clauses are separated by the introducing adjunction; if
before, the clauses are separated by an adjunctive particle (roughly
equivalent to English "then").
Relative clauses must immediately follow the noun phrase they modify, and
are introduced with a relative pronoun (with an optional case particle, if
it's not the agent of the relative clause).
Complement clauses are introduced with a complementive particle (roughyl
equivalent to English "for" or "that"), preceded by an optional case
particle.
Questions/Comments?
-l.
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