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qiihoskehI've been working on a new language, Jan12, and translating the Relay 20 text into it. It's an offshoot of Dec29, which I don't think I've mentioned here.
The syntax is basically: Predicate Arguments, with the # arguments (= actual valence) from 0 to 3. Adjunct clauses and secondary predicates may be appended to the host clause. Each predicate also has a potential valence; when the actual valence isn't the expected value, it's marked as a suffix on the predicate. The expected value depends on the clause type, which is marked as a prefix on the predicate. If the type is main or subjunctive, the expected value = the potential valence but if the type is attributive (0-marked), coreferential, resultative, or imperative, the expected value = the potential valence - 1, making the last argument implicit. Argument role inversions are also marked as suffixes on the predicate (this part is still being worked on). There's a possessibility suffix which increases the potential valence in order to insert a possessor argument, e.g. cat (1) => cat+ (2) as in cat+ 1S "my cat" (kirke-n vii).
Either aspect or absolute tense is prefixed to each predicate, except that attributive predicates mostly have implicit aspect. The absolute tenses are used to establish the time, with subsequent clauses marking aspect. There's also a prefix for plural or pluractionality and maybe some for modality, process phases, and degree of comparison.
The syntax is basically: Predicate Arguments, with the # arguments (= actual valence) from 0 to 3. Adjunct clauses and secondary predicates may be appended to the host clause. Each predicate also has a potential valence; when the actual valence isn't the expected value, it's marked as a suffix on the predicate. The expected value depends on the clause type, which is marked as a prefix on the predicate. If the type is main or subjunctive, the expected value = the potential valence but if the type is attributive (0-marked), coreferential, resultative, or imperative, the expected value = the potential valence - 1, making the last argument implicit. Argument role inversions are also marked as suffixes on the predicate (this part is still being worked on). There's a possessibility suffix which increases the potential valence in order to insert a possessor argument, e.g. cat (1) => cat+ (2) as in cat+ 1S "my cat" (kirke-n vii).
Either aspect or absolute tense is prefixed to each predicate, except that attributive predicates mostly have implicit aspect. The absolute tenses are used to establish the time, with subsequent clauses marking aspect. There's also a prefix for plural or pluractionality and maybe some for modality, process phases, and degree of comparison.
