Difference between revisions of "Middle Olgish language"

Adjectives do not agree with the nouns they modify, like in most Olgish dialects. While they commonly appear as (pseudo-)predicates bearing verbal suffixes, the adjective-specific morphology is limited to comparison; the comparative is coded with '''-ár''' and the superlative with '''-ún'''. These are among the most commonly ‘host-travelling’ affixes and frequently appear a qualifiers in nominal and verbal constructions.

Similar to adjectives, Middle Olgish nouns display very limited morphological coding. With morphological case already lost in later Old Olgish, the only feature overtly coded for on nominals is number; Middle Olgish largely continues the highly irregular plural forms of Old Olgish but already shows some tendency towards regularization, in particular in replacing non-concatenative elements with suffixes. The already common plural suffixes ''-im'', ''-in'', and ''-a'', along with the ethnonymic suffix ''-i'' are increasingly preferred, eventually leading to the nearly complete regularization of plural suffixes in [[New Olgish]].