Quoting Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>:
> Example: duat --- darkness
> Singular Dual Plural
> Fem Male Fem Male Fem Male
> Nom. duat dwat duati dwati duatu dwatu
> Acc. duatan dwatam duatin dwatim duatun dwatum
> Gen. duatar dwatal duatir dwatil duatur dwatul
> Loc. duatad dwatab duatid dwatib duatud dwatub
> Soc. duatas dwataw duatis dwatiw duatus dwatuw
> Dat. duataq dwatap duatiq dwatip duatuq dwatup
> Abl. duatag dwatab duatig dwatib duatug dwatub
> +Voc. duáte dwáte duátie dwátie duátwe dwátwe
>
> In darkness -- duatadit dwatabit
> To darkness -- duatadwo dwatabwo
> From darkness -- duatadil dwatadil
Do all nouns have male and female forms? If so, why? One would
think that this is more a property of adjectives agreeing in
gender with a noun.
> LW verbs have three persons and numbers.
Is possession on nouns marked on the possessor or the possessum?
If the possessum, do the verbal endings have any relationship
to the possessive endings (in many languages they do).
> Tenses : historical past - past perfect - past - present - future - future
> perfect.
Is the future perfect considered a tense for mophological
reasons?
> Aspects: Habitual - Continous
These aspects usually pattern together in languages. A more
common split is perfective / imperfective.
> Object: Intransitive and transitive.
> Voice*: Active and passive.
> Certainty*: supposation - hearsay - experience.
To clarify: is "object" an agreement marker for transitivity, or
the actual marker of direct or indirect objects? And are the
markers for voice and evidentiality exclusive with object
marking? (If so, this is somewhat similar to Phaleran: transitivity
marking is dropped when a valence changing marker is added, with
the exception of causatives.)
> Voice: Passive: -lu. Used when the action happens to the subject.
Is there an antipassive? How about an instrumental-focuser?
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