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== | ==Notable constructions in the text== | ||
===Conditional clause=== | |||
The text’s very first sentence is a good example of a Middle Olgish conditional construction. | |||
<blockquote>''Ním ilisek kéla ahandärnek nauko.''<br />‘If all were well, I would be polite with you.’</blockquote> | |||
The condition is presented first, without a conjunction but the predicate in the subjunctive mood: ''ním ilisek'' ‘things would [be] good’. | |||
This is a {{sc| | 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== | |||
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) | |||
* '''elikún''' ‘so many different options’ ← ''elik'' ‘alternative, choice’ + ''-ún'' (superlative suffix) | |||
* '''gissún''' ‘full of’ ← ''gis'' ‘with’ + ''-ún'' (superlative suffix) | |||
===Elision of the definite article=== | |||
===Possessive construction with a pronoun=== | |||