Re: K'tle morphosyntax

On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Jeffrey Jones wrote:

> OVERVIEW
>
> K'tle uses a direct/inverse system with a 2 > 1 > 3 hierarchy.
> There's neither
> case nor obviation marking. There's also no morphological tense.
>
> Word order is mostly pragmatic rather than syntactical. If a topic
> appears in a
> clause, it must come first. Any new or contrasting constituents
> appear at the
> end of the clause.
>
> Except for a few particles, all K'tle words are inflected (and
> referred to as
> predicates). The major division of the predicates is into nouns and
> verbs, but
> note that nouns take many of the same inflections as verbs, the
> most notable
> difference being that nouns have inherent gender.
>
> Count nouns are marked for number (singular or plural).
>
> Words that might be classified as adjectives, adverbs, adpositions,
> pronouns,
> or quantifiers in another language are all considered verbs in
> K'tle. Verbs are
> inflected for aspect, mood (etc.), argument agreement, and syntactical
> function. There are four syntactical functions: primary (finite
> verbs),
> secondary, adjectival, and nominal.
>
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> I've written up a lot more -- too much to post at one time.
I'm looking forward to it. This sounds similar to a lang I'm working
on, what with there being only one main class of words, which is
inflected.

>
> Jeff