Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Continued Grammatical Expansion

Hi,

Okay, so I've continued to expand the grammatical elements of this language. Mainly, I keep adding particle markers. The newest ones are these.

Basic location marker (singular/plural):
"at" --> -emdi/-emdier

invitational verb marker:
"let's" --> -udi

Here are a couple more example sentences to show how they might work, using vocab and grammar that can be found in previous posts. These sentences are transcribed thus:

Straight Draddrikan
Draddrikan, broken into morphemes
"Literal English" (i.e. "word-for-word")
Smooth English

Nen breavreðudi crikemdi.
Nen bre-avreð-udi crik-emdi.
"We-two will.sleep.let's bed.at."
Let's go to bed.

Datepasht hanacharadaa taeði.
Datep-asht hanach-aradaa ta-eði.
"Meat.dir cook.imp I.indir."
Cook me meat. (Or, Cook meat for me.)

Sentences are becoming somewhat more complex, but not huge yet. Obviously, the language is impoverished currently by the lack of adjectives and adverbs. Those will be the next undertaking, in a near future post.

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