Re: ’iiƞìm (Dezinaa's octoberlang)
Posted: 14 Nov 2014 17:54
At last, verbs! I still have a lot of decisions to make. And I still have to figure out imperfective and perfective, even though they sound fairly straight-forward.
Verbs
The "verbal template" (Is that even what it's called?) of ’iiƞìm is negative-mood-voice-verb-aspect-tense-ergative.argument. I still have to decide exactly what moods and aspects I want. I can't wrap my brain around the antipassive, but maybe I'll include it sometime.
Negative: mù-
Moods: indicative (unmarked), imperative -uá-
Voices: active (unmarked), reciprocal, reflexive
Aspects: simple (unmarked), perfective, imperfective
Tenses: past -nù-, present (unmarked), future -in-
As you can see, I haven't made all of the affixes yet. And I might change some of this, but that's why this is a scratchpad.
Tense
’iiƞìm has present, past, and future tenses. All verbs take the same affixes. Here is ànma, "see", with the tense suffixes:
Examples:
Tuuat ànmanùam.
tuu-at ànma-nù-am
DEM.DIST-NMLZ see-PST-1SG.ERG
I saw him.
’impàp manta-in-àì
mango.ABS eat-FUT-3SG.ERG
She will eat mangoes.
Akip mùtúam!
akip mù-tú-am
tuna.ABS NEG-be-1SG.ERG
I'm not a tuna!
Verbs
The "verbal template" (Is that even what it's called?) of ’iiƞìm is negative-mood-voice-verb-aspect-tense-ergative.argument. I still have to decide exactly what moods and aspects I want. I can't wrap my brain around the antipassive, but maybe I'll include it sometime.
Negative: mù-
Moods: indicative (unmarked), imperative -uá-
Voices: active (unmarked), reciprocal, reflexive
Aspects: simple (unmarked), perfective, imperfective
Tenses: past -nù-, present (unmarked), future -in-
As you can see, I haven't made all of the affixes yet. And I might change some of this, but that's why this is a scratchpad.
Tense
’iiƞìm has present, past, and future tenses. All verbs take the same affixes. Here is ànma, "see", with the tense suffixes:
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PRS ànma
PST ànmanù
FUT ànmain
Tuuat ànmanùam.
tuu-at ànma-nù-am
DEM.DIST-NMLZ see-PST-1SG.ERG
I saw him.
Edit: Changed "Tuu" to "Tuuat".
’impàp mantainàì.’impàp manta-in-àì
mango.ABS eat-FUT-3SG.ERG
She will eat mangoes.
Akip mùtúam!
akip mù-tú-am
tuna.ABS NEG-be-1SG.ERG
I'm not a tuna!