(no subject)

* Besides working a little on PolyD and the not really ologosynthetic conlang, I started a new project. Lianoke is strictly (C)V, with 12 consonants and 5 vowels. It's basically VOS, but SVO occurs a lot. When VOS, the subject is preceded by the subject marker, making it look like a trigger language. Alignment/grammatical voice is used to put arguments into the subject position; this is important because the relative pronoun isn't marked for case. Also, a main clause may begin with a tense and/or same subject marker. There are also modal and evidential components to a clause. Perceptual clauses (and some others) use the evidential component to specify the type of perception etc., with a locational word, such as "here" in the verb position. Here's a sample sentence:

Tu kalapa lianoke ehapo losumenoke.
"People speak Lianoke in Sumenoke."