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Adzamic grammar
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1. Adzamic grammar
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Proto-AdzamicThe language is loosely agglutinating, with a few fusional elements. Words are not usually particularly long.
Nouns are divided into several distinct animacy classes, and are obligatorily marked for animacy, number, and definiteness.
Animacy hierarchy:
1st person - 2nd person - 3rd - obviative
Referentials (proper names, anaphors)
Sentient - Sacred - Animate - Fluid - Tool - Natural - Location - Inanimate
The primary deixis of the verb is locational, with reference to in front/ behind the speaker at three different distances. There is no morphological temporal deixis (aka tense).
Verb morph
DECL unmarked
IMP ke-
HORT əfa-
DES jii-
NEC qe-
PROB leš-
CAP šu-
Q bee-
NEG do-
PASS -dehə
Adzamic is a direct-inverse language. There is no case marking, and word order is fixed according to the animacy hierarchy, with more-animate arguments occurring earlier in the sentence. If two arguments are of equal animacy, the agentive argument will appear first. When the first argument is the object, the verb (which occurs finally) takes an inverse marker.
DEF-man DEF-woman see 'The man sees the woman'
DEF-man DEF-woman see-INV 'The woman sees the man'
DEF-woman DEF-man see-INV 'The man sees the woman'
DEF-man DEF-cat see 'The man sees the cat'
DEF-man DEF-cat see-INV 'The cat sees the man'
*DEF-cat DEF-man see -- Grammatically incorrect!
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