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qiihoskeh ([personal profile] qiihoskeh) wrote2006-12-05 05:32 pm
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* For the past week I've been feeling stressed and very sleepy in the daytime, not at night. So I haven't gotten much done.

* I forgot to mention that I reread To Say Nothing of the Dog and Bellwether, both by Connie Willis (if you didn't know).

* I have started yet another conlang, project rho.

The ending determines the syntactical word class: mood endings if the word functions as a verb and case endings if the word functions as a noun. These can go on words of any lexical class except that particles are uninflected and pronouns can't take mood endings. The lexical classes are adjective, verb, noun, pronoun, and particle. Adjectives and verbs are marked for aspect, tense, voice, and gender, while nouns are marked for number and voice and definiteness and pronouns for number. Voice for nouns is limited to direct (unmarked), inverse, and reciprocal, and can appear only on divalent nouns, while voice for verbs includes active, passive, reflexive, and reciprocal.

Spatial relations are specified using divalent nouns rather than adpositions. The object takes the genitive case and the relationshship word takes one of the locational cases (at, to, from, or via).

I've layed out a bit of the grammar, although some things are undecided, and have the phonology partly done. What I haven't been able to start on is assigning morphemes.