TriCons4 Morphology
2010-Jun-09, Wednesday 10:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qiihoskehI've been working full-time on TCR4, which is turning out to be sort of bi-consonantal. One technique I'm using is to partially create a proto-language for it and then apply sound changes (such as umlaut and vowel deletion) and grammaticization to it.
An interesting feature of the proto-language is that it's OVS. This is so that the basic stems come from CVC roots + -VC classifiers (although, there are also some CVCVC stems with or without classifiers and a small number of roots with null classifiers in some forms).
For verbs, the classifiers are a fusion of action-type (static, dynamic) and argument structure (probably 7 to 10 of them for dynamic stems, 6 for static, with 2nd "derived" sets of both).
For nouns, the classifiers are used for classes, which fuse sub-gender (human, animal, plant, etc.; the genders are animate and inanimate) with number. A few of the noun classes are mandatorily possessed, and these use a prefix for the possessor. The others may take a definite article.
I also spent a whole day working on a writing system. I have a picture of it (not finished yet):
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Which I can't insert here for various reasons.
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An interesting feature of the proto-language is that it's OVS. This is so that the basic stems come from CVC roots + -VC classifiers (although, there are also some CVCVC stems with or without classifiers and a small number of roots with null classifiers in some forms).
For verbs, the classifiers are a fusion of action-type (static, dynamic) and argument structure (probably 7 to 10 of them for dynamic stems, 6 for static, with 2nd "derived" sets of both).
For nouns, the classifiers are used for classes, which fuse sub-gender (human, animal, plant, etc.; the genders are animate and inanimate) with number. A few of the noun classes are mandatorily possessed, and these use a prefix for the possessor. The others may take a definite article.
I also spent a whole day working on a writing system. I have a picture of it (not finished yet):
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Which I can't insert here for various reasons.
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