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Hallelujah, I found terminology!
Eldertongue verbs have:
- no person or number agreement
- eight tenses (three past, one present, three future, and one eternal)
- three aspects (static, commencing, and cessative)
- and six evidentialities, which might arguably be moods instead (definite, probable, possible, hearsay, desired, and untrue).
Sentences are formed VSO (verb subject object). (There may be circumstances under which this isn't the case, but I haven't solidified any yet.)
And then there's valency, which has to do with how many arguments a verb requires. As explained on the site above, verbs come in four categories.
0, or impersonal (English doesn't have any of these)
1, or intransitive ("he runs")
2, or transitive ("she eats lettuce")
3, or ditransitive ("we gave presents to them")
Eldertongue has only transitive and ditransitive verbs.
It is also worth noticing that every verb in Eldertongue must be able to accept a person as its object. English concepts such as "drink" or "shimmer" or "gallop" will be repackaged accordingly.
Hallelujah, I found terminology!
Eldertongue verbs have:
- no person or number agreement
- eight tenses (three past, one present, three future, and one eternal)
- three aspects (static, commencing, and cessative)
- and six evidentialities, which might arguably be moods instead (definite, probable, possible, hearsay, desired, and untrue).
Sentences are formed VSO (verb subject object). (There may be circumstances under which this isn't the case, but I haven't solidified any yet.)
And then there's valency, which has to do with how many arguments a verb requires. As explained on the site above, verbs come in four categories.
0, or impersonal (English doesn't have any of these)
1, or intransitive ("he runs")
2, or transitive ("she eats lettuce")
3, or ditransitive ("we gave presents to them")
Eldertongue has only transitive and ditransitive verbs.
It is also worth noticing that every verb in Eldertongue must be able to accept a person as its object. English concepts such as "drink" or "shimmer" or "gallop" will be repackaged accordingly.
