Languary Day CAUGHT UP! Start on grammar

[aldersprig]

Questions from Zompist's Language Construction Kit

This is a work in progress and also a learning exercise. I don't have all - even most of - the vocabulary, so pls. be patient.

Also, it's a worldbuilding exercise at the same time...

Is your language fusional, agglutinative, or isolating?

I think I'm going to go with fusional, in part to try something utterly different from Caleyen. It also gives me the option of moving one of the dialects to analytic or agglgglgluglug... *cough* Agglutinative.

How do you form inflections?

...Not sure yet!

I'm /thinking/ prefixes. It suits the way the sentences feel to me. But on the other hand, I'm fonder of suffixes for comprehension. That could be because English is my first language and I've only studied romance languages....

After a bit of research: Suffixes it is! Mostly.

Side note: Negation appears at the sentence's beginning or end, depending on context. That really goes in the Sentence order post.

Comments

[thnidu]

So, a negator may turn up in the middle of a complex sentence, if a subordinate clause that's negated at the beginning is embedded somewhere else than at the beginning of the matrix sentence (or end...end).

(The way I'm feeling at the moment, Dr. Whomster narrowly lost out to this icon.)

[aldersprig]

Oh, bog, /complex/ sentences? I barely have the beginning of /simple/ sentences figured out.

(Not) Went mall Jane.

(Not) may turn up in the middle of sentence complex negator..

oh

Oh, maybe.

Subordinate clauses.

Oh bog, what do I do with subordinate clauses?

Okay, now picture a monklike being in like 1000 BC (+ or - 1000 years, still worldbuilding) going "Oh, great demons, WHERE do I put negators in subordinate clauses?"

[thnidu]

I don't expect that it would be confusing. Can't analyze in detail till I know a bit more. If the beginning negators and the end negators are different, without overlap, then it should be clear most of the time. (NO real language is clear all the time.) -- I may be offline till tomorrow.

[aldersprig]

Still making it up! I'll let you know when I figure it out :-D