Re: Merian H-4: Grammar and Phonology.

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# Cases
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# Ergative - The Ergative case is the subject in Present tense transitive
# sentences.
# Absolutive - The Absolutive is the object in Present tense transitive
# sentences, and the subject in intransitive present tense ones.
# Pretergative - The Ergative, but in Past Tense
# Pretabsolutive - The Absoloutive but in past tense
# Postergative - The Ergative, but in Future Tense
# Postabsolutive - The absoloutive in the Future Tense
# Facergative - The Ergative, in the Uncertain Future Tense
# Facabsolutive - The Absolutive, in the Uncertain Future Tense
# Dative - Indirect object of any Present Tense Sentence
# Predative - Indirect object in the past tense
# Postdative - indirect object in the future tense
# Facudative - Indirect object in the uncertain future tense
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# As you see, there is a different case for each tense, so I shall merely list
# the Present cases.

Interesting... I'm trying to come up with a similar system of offsetting tense
to nouns in my most recent project, though not nearly as complex.. (using
just 3 time deictics that modify the noun)

Is tense marked the same in all case (or case the same in all tenses?)  Or
are all the possible combinations completely different from one another?

Is there any mood/aspect system? And if so, is it based on combination
of tenses? Such as making conditional in transitive contexts
pretergative + postabsolutive.

-tim
http://www.zece.com/conlang/

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