1,050
edits
Difference between revisions of "LCC11 Torch Annotated Gloss"
→Morphological soft selection
| Line 52: | Line 52: | ||
A hallmark feature of all [[Ortûlékian languages]], affixes in Middle Olgish show a great deal of flexibility with regards to the syntactic class of the host they attach to, moving fairly freely between nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and more rarely even pronouns and particles. This ‘soft’ host selection is very common and appears in multiple instances in the text above: | A hallmark feature of all [[Ortûlékian languages]], affixes in Middle Olgish show a great deal of flexibility with regards to the syntactic class of the host they attach to, moving fairly freely between nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and more rarely even pronouns and particles. This ‘soft’ host selection is very common and appears in multiple instances in the text above: | ||
* '''ilisek''' ‘it would be good’ ← ''ilis'' {{sc|adj}} ‘good’ + ''-ek'' (singular subjunctive ending) | * '''ilisek''' ‘it would be good’ ← ''ilis'' {{sc|adj}} ‘good’ + ''-ek'' (singular subjunctive ending) | ||
* '''elikún''' ‘so many different options’ ← ''elik'' ‘alternative, choice’ + ''-ún'' (superlative suffix) | * '''elikún''' ‘so many different options’ ← ''elik'' {{sc|n}} ‘alternative, choice’ + ''-ún'' (superlative suffix) | ||
* '''gissún''' ‘full of’ ← ''gis'' ‘with’ + ''-ún'' (superlative suffix) | * '''gissún''' ‘full of’ ← ''gis'' {{sc|prep}} ‘with’ + ''-ún'' (superlative suffix) | ||
===Elision of the definite article=== | ===Elision of the definite article=== | ||