Thap Grammar
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This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 7 Dec 2020, 00:27.
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1. Diachronics: Thap
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2. Thap Grammar
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Adding as I make it up as I go along based loosely on the Proto-Lahiri grammar.
Standard Ekuo-Lahiri family business:
- Direct-inverse (?)
- Animacy hierarchy
Nouns are marked with number/animacy prefixes. There are rather a lot of sub-paradigms and irregular forms with a number of noun roots essentially being suppletive for number/animacy at this point.
Hey, did you forget about mass nouns? Yeah, yeah you did.
Nouns can also take demonstratives and possessive prefixes.
Major word order is SOV or OSV. ¿Preference is for animacy-based word order, but this is not required. Argument case is assigned by animacy, with more animate argument serving as the agent; inverse marker used to change this.
functionality examples:
man cat see = the man sees the cat
cat man see = the man sees the act
man cat see-INVERSE = the cat sees the man
cat man see-INVERSE = the cat sees the man ?
Verbs can incorporate objects: VO. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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