> As I have shown before many times, in Silindion
> there
> are two main endings for the 3rd person singular [in
> the present tense], namely, -n and -r.
>
> Example:
>
> tek¨¦n "he praises X"
> an¨¢r "he promises"
> mir "he falls"
> nen "he gives X"
>
> The main difference between them is often that -n is
> for transitive verbs (not universal however) and -r
> is
> for intransitive verbs (not universal as well).
>
> What I'm beginning to understand is that, in some
> time
> in Silindion's past it must have had a SPLIT
> inflection system of some sort. This can account for
> the less than straightforward distribution of -r and
> -n. (I'm not sure exactly how, but it's a start of a
> theory).
>
> Anyway, beyond this assumption of an ancient split
> system, I also think that the basic divisions in
> inflection for Silinestic (Silindion's immediate
> predecessor) must have been the following:
>
> predicate with two arguments:
> *tekk-Vm nistad lawando-m
> praise-3A/3P king[AGENT] hunter-[PATIENT]
> "the king praises the hunter"
>
> predicate with one argument:
> *an-Vr nistad gelet¨¥-di
> promise-3S king[SUBJECT] gold-[GENITIVE]
> "The king promises gold"
>
> [this is intransitive, really "makes a promise of"]
>
> predicate with no arguments:
> tekkn-V lawando-di
> praise.stative-[empty 3s] hunter-[GENITIVE]
> "The hunter is being praised"
> "There is praising of the hunter"
>
> (the verb here is a n-stative derivative of the root
> TEKK "praise". N-statives as derivatives are very
> archaic, and mostly have become grammaticalised as
> passive 3rd singular presents in Silindion. One
> n-stative which is still derivational is <ser-n-
> "to
> be ready"> as opposed to <ser- "to prepare">)
>
> So, this means that the suffixes -Vm and -Vr may be
> compound suffixes, -V-m and -V-r, with -V being an
> empty 3rd singular, -m relating that 3rd singular to
> an object, -r relating it to a subject. Found by
> itself, the verb remains neutral as to argument
> count.
>
>
> Is this at all plausible?
>
> -Elliott
>
>
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