Day 98-101: MyLang, Verbs Verbs Verbs!
Day 98 was about creating index markers for verbs. I need to make markers for:
Luckily I worked out the lexical sources giving me:
Subject number prefix: dhe/é-
Inverse particle: ná (follows verb)
Past tense suffix: -lá/a (maybe changes when put on aux, or aux has its own form)
Future tense adverb: huúl
Active participle suffix -a/áx
I'm not fully decided if the auxiliary is going to be always used or if it will be used in certain grammatical situations. Here are examples of the same sentence with one using the auxiliary and one not:
Sha fœ́ lárollá dhe ódhi.
The mouse gathered the dandelion (no auxiliary)
Sha fœ́ ósla lároax dhe ódhi.
The mouse gathered the dandelion (with auxiliary)
Both work for me, so I can decide later. I'll have to do some research on converbs to see how I can incorporate them, but I'll leave that for another day.
Here's an example that incorporates all the above, except the future adverb:
Sha fœ́dh ósla dhereéngax ná kó grakú
Sha fœ́-dh ós-la dhe-reéng-ax ná kó grakú
The mouse-PL do-past PL-crush-PART INV the boulder
The mouse is crushed by the boulder/The boulder crushed the mouse
The inverse marker shows that the lower animate argument is the actor in the sentence.
Day 99 is about creating tense/aspect forms. I have a simple past and a future adverb so I'll just focus on aspects.
The imperfective will be the default so why not use the auxiliary verb to make the perfective? That makes sense to me. The revised example sentence is:
Sha fœ́dh ós dhéreéngax ná kó grakú
The bounder crushes the mice (in one instance)
Sha fœ́dh dhéreéng ná kó grakú
The boulder is crushing the mice (currently/ongoing)
I think that's right. I'm kinda rushing today. So the perfect will be made with the past marker and the auxiliary. That's all I can do for those today. Let's move on!
Day 100 was about making examples to show non-finite verb forms.
I have the active participle covered with the -a/áx suffix. For the infinitive, I think I'll just use the plain verb. I'll have to do example clauses later.
Day 101 is about mapping out the components of the verb structure. Here is what I got:
ós-la dhe-[ROOT]-la(n)-ax huúl ná
aux-PST PL-ROOT-past-participle future inverse
Okeee that's all I can do today.