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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 00:09 
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There is exactly one postposition, and no other adpositions.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 00:15 
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Khemehekis wrote:
Akzálī wrote:
The language does not have pronouns.
Just personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) or does this extend to pronouns like "who", "everyone", "nothing" and "someone" as well?
Only to personal,possessive and demonstrative pronouns.
The language has the inessive case.
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The language has a combined adessive-genitive case.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 00:35 
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Summary of the grammar so far:

-Paucal number
-Dual
-Trial
-Ergative
-Secundative
-No tense or mood marking
-No polarity marking
-No evidentiality
-Masculine and feminine gender
-Five degrees of comparison
-Prefixing
-Objects before verbs
-Adjectives before nouns
-Time-manner-place
-Exactly one postposition, no other adpositions
-No personal, possessive or demonstrative pronouns
-Inessive case
-Adessive-genitive case

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A prefix on the verb indicates number, person, gender, animacy and age of the absolutive argument.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 00:53 
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Khemehekis wrote:
A prefix on the verb indicates number, person, gender, animacy and age of the absolutive argument.


There is a fair amount of syncretism in this prefix.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 04:11 
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There are 16 noun cases, determined by hand gestures.
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Verbs are a closed part of speech.

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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 15:03 
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The sixth degree of comparison (on the high end) is applicable only to God(s), to use it for anything else would be frighteningly presumptuous.
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Dremel Windborne wrote:
The sixth degree of comparison (on the high end) is applicable only to God(s), to use it for anything else would be frighteningly presumptuous.
The language has 5 degrees of comparison.
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PostPosted: Mon 12 Mar 2012, 21:48 
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Dremel Windborne wrote:
There are 16 noun cases, determined by hand gestures.

Sorry, what? How? Why?

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Do hand gestures count as phonemes?

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You should probably try ignoring any suggestion that is aimed more at causing confusion than contributing.

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Let's say there are 16 noun cases, however they may be formed.

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One of the noun cases is partitive, used, among other things, to indicate atelicity

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There is no wh-movement.

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Thakowsaizmu wrote:
One of the noun cases is partitive, used, among other things, to indicate atelicity


It's simply telicity.

The conlang has no definite article, but an indefinite one.
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The language has a body-part based numeral system.

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The conlang has a NOM-ABSOL alignment.

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Dremel Windborne
PostPosted: Tue 13 Mar 2012, 02:52 
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Akzálī wrote:
Dremel Windborne wrote:
The sixth degree of comparison (on the high end) is applicable only to God(s), to use it for anything else would be frighteningly presumptuous.
The language has 5 degrees of comparison.


Oops, right on, I guess I had read that wrong [:$] Let's make that the fifth degree then.

Thakowsaizmu wrote:
Dremel Windborne wrote:
There are 16 noun cases, determined by hand gestures.

Sorry, what? How? Why?
Ossicone wrote:
You should probably try ignoring any suggestion that is aimed more at causing confusion than contributing.


I am shocked, appalled even, that you would insinuate such a thing [;)] In all seriousness though, I would be glad to elaborate on it if you wish; I guess I've spent too much time lurking the ZBB, with their quickly-escalating outlandish community langs (There was one I haven't been able to find, good Lord it was horrible).

I'll just count the edit I did of the one above my contribution for this post.
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