new latest conlang: verbs
2010-Nov-25, Thursday 15:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qiihoskehI'm afraid I got tired of the switch-reference and clause-chaining conlang and started on an easy SVO one. It lacks personal agreement, but there are enclitic object pronouns which attach to verb forms. A peculiarity is that verbs have 2 basic stems: one that can take only one enclitic and one that can take 2 enclitics. Besides the primary and secondary objects, there are directionals, which are also enclitic. No verb can take both a directional
and an indirect (primary) object.
The reflexive, passive, and object-omission suffixes go where the 1st enclitic would have gone. There are also inverse and causative forms.
There are 4 verb classes according to how the stems are forms. For 2 of these classes, the 1-enclitic stem is more basic and for another class, the 2-enclitic stem is more basic. The remaining class uses ablaut.
The directionals indicate whether motion is toward, away from, by way of, or to a reference point, that being either the location of the speaker or some other definite location. The last pair are also used for static locations. The directionals can themselves be used as verbs.
Verbs take tense prefixes; for dynamic verbs, these are followed by aspect prefixes.
and an indirect (primary) object.
The reflexive, passive, and object-omission suffixes go where the 1st enclitic would have gone. There are also inverse and causative forms.
There are 4 verb classes according to how the stems are forms. For 2 of these classes, the 1-enclitic stem is more basic and for another class, the 2-enclitic stem is more basic. The remaining class uses ablaut.
The directionals indicate whether motion is toward, away from, by way of, or to a reference point, that being either the location of the speaker or some other definite location. The last pair are also used for static locations. The directionals can themselves be used as verbs.
Verbs take tense prefixes; for dynamic verbs, these are followed by aspect prefixes.
