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* I've been sleepy almost every day since Renovation, although yesterday I was awake most of the day enough to work on another conlang sketch.
* The new sketch is sort of complicated. There are 3 kinds of verb forms: personal, impersonal, and mixed. The impersonal forms are used when all the arguments are either phrases or not expressed. No inversion suffix is needed on the verb because the nouns are case-marked. The personal forms are used when all the arguments are pronominal. The format for trivalent verbs is:
Arg1-Theme-VerbStem-Inversion-Arg2
with Theme omitted for bi- and uni-valent verbs.
There's a 2 > 1 > 3MT > 3LT hierarchy for Arg1 and Arg2: 2nd person always uses Arg1, 1st person uses Arg2 if 2nd person present, else Arg1. When neither 1st or 2nd person is present, Arg1 is used for the more topical 3rd person and Arg2 the less topical (this works for univalent verbs as well).
Mixed verb forms are left as an exercise for the reader.
* The new sketch is sort of complicated. There are 3 kinds of verb forms: personal, impersonal, and mixed. The impersonal forms are used when all the arguments are either phrases or not expressed. No inversion suffix is needed on the verb because the nouns are case-marked. The personal forms are used when all the arguments are pronominal. The format for trivalent verbs is:
Arg1-Theme-VerbStem-Inversion-Arg2
with Theme omitted for bi- and uni-valent verbs.
There's a 2 > 1 > 3MT > 3LT hierarchy for Arg1 and Arg2: 2nd person always uses Arg1, 1st person uses Arg2 if 2nd person present, else Arg1. When neither 1st or 2nd person is present, Arg1 is used for the more topical 3rd person and Arg2 the less topical (this works for univalent verbs as well).
Mixed verb forms are left as an exercise for the reader.
