latest conlang problems
2010-Sep-06, Monday 19:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qiihoskehMy latest conlang sketches haven't been going well. The main problem is matching phonology, especially the historical part, with morphology, and deciding what affixes to put where.
The newest is animate-inanimate split ergative [I also have a problem with Payne's hierarchy] with 0-marked nominative and absolutive (the other cases are accusative, dative, instrumental, ablative, genitive, partitive, and vocative; there's no ergative since inanimates can't be transitive subjects).
Some other things I'm not sure of:
* postpositions, postpositional verbs, or spatial adverbs?
* if postpositions, is the object one of dative, instrumental, ablative as appropriate or just accusative/absolutive? (verbs require the latter, while adverbs require the former).
* using the same protolevel suffixes for both singular and plural.
So far, the SV-OV-XV order with clause chains and switch-reference hasn't presented a problem.
The newest is animate-inanimate split ergative [I also have a problem with Payne's hierarchy] with 0-marked nominative and absolutive (the other cases are accusative, dative, instrumental, ablative, genitive, partitive, and vocative; there's no ergative since inanimates can't be transitive subjects).
Some other things I'm not sure of:
* postpositions, postpositional verbs, or spatial adverbs?
* if postpositions, is the object one of dative, instrumental, ablative as appropriate or just accusative/absolutive? (verbs require the latter, while adverbs require the former).
* using the same protolevel suffixes for both singular and plural.
So far, the SV-OV-XV order with clause chains and switch-reference hasn't presented a problem.
