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This is followed by the conditioned action, equally in the subjunctive but introduced by ''kéla'' ‘then, therefore’, one of the few Olgish conjunctions: ''kéla ahandärnek nauka'' ‘I would speak politely with you’. | This is followed by the conditioned action, equally in the subjunctive but introduced by ''kéla'' ‘then, therefore’, one of the few Olgish conjunctions: ''kéla ahandärnek nauka'' ‘I would speak politely with you’. | ||
===Morphological soft selection== | ===Morphological soft selection=== | ||
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) | ||
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===Elision of the definite article=== | ===Elision of the definite article=== | ||
The definite article ''terg'', obligatory in [[Saint Fádin|Fádin’s]] [[Liturgical Middle Olgish|Liturgical Olgish]], is used only sparingly in Middle Olgish and in many instances subject to elision and cliticization, attaching either to the following noun or, more commonly, a preceding preposition. | |||
The above text contains only three definite articles, two serving a demonstrative function and one used in a possessive construction with a pronoun. | |||
*''duat’ hern'' ‘at home’ | |||