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The last option I think.

DV82LECM wrote: ↑09 Apr 2024 16:13

Knox Adjacent wrote: ↑09 Apr 2024 01:27 Never seen one either, but great minds think alike?

I wager. Did you derive the same?

You could say that.
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Never seen one either, but great minds think alike?

The live-in girlfriend who got real mad at me because I evicted her at the end of last September and made me pay for it.

Legally, I survived Betty. Big yay.

Other than the rarity of ergativity extending to syntax, no. The gender system isn't as exciting as some people make it out to be, c.f. K Plaster 2007 ("Women aren't dangerous things: gender and categorization"). Otherwise it's a well-behaved eastern Pama-Nyungan language.

Depends on the duration of dying. I wouldn't expect new native prepositions without a very protracted death and a change in order; probably just straight up borrowing instead and calquing again.

So on to adjectives. Adjectives are easy-peasy, lemon-Stevey. They basically just take a noun class prefix agreeing with their head noun. The prefixes are the same as their nominal referents '. Adjectives may be used with zero-derivation as nouns. But! That results in in nouns with a concrete meanin...

Hmm. Say the SVO uses a complicated array of prepositions and relational nouns, and the local cool-speak uses cases suffixes (with suffixaufnahme for good measure) or just subordinate verbs that haven't quite made the leap to adposition, I wouldn't expect the dying SVO to hop aboard to case suffixes...

Yeah I got them and slowly ever more so. Instrumentals, elevation, direction, time of day, a slot for incorporated adverbs/adverbial prefixes, I guess some aspect forms, such much. Honestly polarity and speaker evaluation might be one of the few things without an affixal option. Bummer about Ainu. (...

Finally someone says it.

kaṇumamtamimi
/kaɳumamtamimi/
ka-ɳumam-ra-mimi
1.ABS-return.home-PRS-SUGG
It would be better for me to go back home.

I often sound out words and example phrases to get a feel, but predominantly it's just Notepad. Always has been.

1. Male
2. Straight
3. Righty
4. American, Tennessee
5. German/Hungarian, English enough for a surname
6. Probably borderline
7. Healthy-ish
8. Glasses
9. Bearded
10. Overweight, but muscular
11. Nerd
12. No pets now
13. No religion

Nice neat romanization: ṛamuṛpuṛṯaw ṛaṇat̰a ṛamilpi ṛakinkat ṛatuyuya=naṛa ṛat̰ayukparmat̰ayukparma ṛatiŋt̰alpiṉinaya=wiwir tiṇuk tiru yiṭaṇupu yiyirik ṛatayalpiya ṛayiŋput̰a yiŋuminitani ṛamuṛpuṛ yaḷu ṛayiŋnara yiŋuminitani=ḻawin pamimapu pakurun ṛaṛaŋput̰a ṛat̰aniŋ ṛamuṛpuṛ yaḷu ṛaṛaŋnara ṛat̰aniŋ...

I can tell, yet it compels me.

Absolutely reasonable, no correlation implied, but c.f. Oklahoma Cherokee.

Copula clauses: So, there's no copula verb. These are nonverbal. Juxtaposition is key here. Identity (A=B) (Noun1 Noun2) ma-ki-mumu ma-caŋik M-1-son M-doctor "My son's a doctor" Attribution (Noun Adjective) ma-ki-mumu ma-mima-makutu M-1-son M-leg-itchy "My son's restless" Locatio...

Adpositions: There's a class of adpositions. Each one bears an agreement prefix to their head noun/pronoun. Adpositions don't form close phrases with those and may freely be separated by unrelated constituents for pragmatic reasons. ( yural̪u yuʈaɳupu mapura can have all 3 words in any order based o...

A bonus but nonessential.