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> 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 tem****al 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?
Is this supposed to be some type of ergative-absolutive
alignment rather than nominative-accusative?
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