A Quandary
I think I want to make Lago isolating-fusion, instead of purely isoating. I just am not really happy with how it's going right now. I also need to shorten the morphemes to single syllables. That's one of the main problems. I am having to resist the call of morpheme to word ratios -- ratios along the lines of n:1, where n>7.
So, I was thinking I could have nouns take a single, polyexponential morpheme (a suffix, for now), maybe utilizing additional morphemes in the form of particles. Verbs, OTOH, would remain isolating. I'd like to make use of suprafixes, such as rhoticizing vowel in position x to show volition, etc. Maybe Proto-Lago was agglutinating, and the nominal morphemes fused, and the verbal morphemes separated into particles. /hu: no:z/? I'm not sure if that is even a naturalistic process. And, I want adjectives to decline for agreement with their heads.
Also, I was at work today, contemplating the intricacies of the Spanish tu/Ud. forms, and I decided I was going to basically toss what I had - actually, toss isn't a good way to say it. I am revamping it, and I am going to expand it in light of the new cultural stuff I have discovered. I want to have kinship terms based on what brood one is from, different pronouns for members of dominant, weak, and outcast broods. Special forms for a mbaryng to use when speaking to his Queens, and vice versus. Different forms for members of different nests. Different forms for before and after the Day of the Brood ( maybe all broods use the same forms before they endure the Day of the Brood).
This is gonna be fun!