R: Roumán Part III - Verbs

Just wondering... does the verb agree with the absolutive, as in my Vaiysi?

Luca

> Verbs have three tenses, present, past, and perfect.  All tenses have
> "Exalted" forms (used when speaking to inferiors) and "normal" forms
> (used when speaking to equals).  Present tense also has special "humble"
> forms, which only exist in third person, since the humble pronouns take
> 3rd person agreement.  In past and perfect, the "normal" forms are used
> with the humble pronouns.  There are four sets of verbs, Class I (-áu <
> -are), Class II (-éi < -êre), Class III (*-le < -ere; sometimes
> different), Class IV (-í < -ire)
>
> Here is the verbal paradigm of a class I verb
> Perfect participle: -atous
>
> Present tense
>   Exalted     Normal      Humble
>   S     P     S     P     S     P
> 1 ou    ánç   en    éinç
> 2 as    áç    eis   éis
> 3 (a)ç  an    eç    en    áss   áun
>
> Past tense
>   Exalted      Normal
>   S     P      S     P
> 1 éi    amos   áin   aléinç
> 2 ést'  ásteis áis   aléiç
> 3 óuç   aron   áiç   áin
>
> Perfect tense
>   Exalted     Normal
>   S     P     S     P
> 1 án    alánç asen  asénç
> 2 ás    aláç  aseis aséç
> 3 áç    án    aseç  asen
>
> There is also an antipassive voice:
> Present Tense
>   Exalted        Normal        Humble
>   S     P        S     P       S      P
> 1 açoun tousmous acein tusinç
> 2 atles tóus     éç    tusiç
> 3 atleç tousoun  aceiç tousein atleis tóesoun
>
> Past Tense
>   Exalted        Normal
>   S       P        S        P
> 1 épf     toefeinç átlesen  toeseinç
> 2 apfist' toefeiç  átleseis toeseiç
> 3 apfeiç  toefein  átleseiç toesen
>
> Perfect Tense
>   Exalted         Normal
>   S      P        S        P
> 1 apfean toefeanç ápfesen  tóefeiseinç
> 2 apfeas toefeaç  ápfeseis tóefeiseiç
> 3 ápfeaç tóefean  ápfeseç  tóefeisen
>
> Other perfect tenses are formed by abéi + perfect participle.
> The Present Exalted is derived from the Present Indicative
> The Present Normal is derived from the Present Subjunctive
> The Present Humble is derived from the Future Indicative
> The Past Exalted is derived from the Perfect Indicative
> The Past Normal is derived from the Imperfect Subjunctive
> The Perfect Exalted is derived from Pluperfect Indicative
> The Perfect Normal is derived from Pluperfect Subjunctive
>
> Originally, the Exalted forms were the normal forms, and the Normal
> forms were defferential forms, the subjunctive having a softening
> effect.  The Present Humble was originally a "Present Doubtful"
>
> Antipassive forms are derived from the agentive noun (e.g., amâtor) +
> esse, thus amâtor sum -> amaçoun, the former absolutive is then placed
> in the genetive.  For example:
> Active:
> Go Yui   ameç
> I  Julia love-3rdSingPresNormal
> [GO Zwi 'AmEts]
>
> Antipassive
> (Go) Yuiei     amacein
> (I)  Julia-gen love-1stSingPresNormalAntipassive
> [GO 'Zuje A'mAtsen]
>
> I've yet to work out the other declensional classes inflections, other
> than that antipassive is identical for -áu, -éi, and -í verbs in the
> plural, and in the singular only differs in that {a/e} is replaced by
> {ei/i} for -éi verbs and {i} for -í verbs
>
> To be is çáu, a regular verb derived from _stâre_, _esse_ survives only
> in inflections and in the question particle _eipf_ < epfi < efpi < espi
> < es pi < est qui.  Questions may also be formed simply by intonation,
> or by placing _noun_ at the beginning of the sentence (represents a
> collapse of Latin _nonne_ and _num_).
>
> Normal word order is SOV or SVO, but all orders possible.  Modifiers
> generally follow their head.