Difference between revisions of "Iliatarian Languages"

Morphosyntax of the Iliatarian languages is fairly consistent across all branches and among the more curious on the Elondorian continent. Inflectional synthesis is largely restricted to the verb and codes primarily for TAM-values and topicalization using infixes inserted between the ultimate and penultimate syllable. Word order is a strict verb-second, taking all adjuncts after the verb. The use of CP\spec is dependent on the verb form, with the ‘absolutive-topicalizing’ base form raising intransitive subjects and direct objects and the ‘ergative-topicalizing’ form, coded by a non-syllabic infix in the last syllable onset, raising transitive subjects, or null-subjects in passive-like constructions. Non-verbal inflection is restricted to comparison coding on adjectives and categorizations on prepositions, both using prefixes.

Morphosyntax of the Iliatarian languages is fairly consistent across all branches and among the more curious on the Elondorian continent. Inflectional synthesis is largely restricted to the verb and codes primarily for TAM-values and topicalization using infixes inserted between the ultimate and penultimate syllable. Word order is a strict verb-second, taking all adjuncts after the verb. The use of CP\spec is dependent on the verb form, with the ‘absolutive-topicalizing’ base form raising intransitive subjects and direct objects and the ‘ergative-topicalizing’ form, coded by a non-syllabic infix in the last syllable onset, raising transitive subjects, or null-subjects in passive-like constructions. Non-verbal inflection is restricted to comparison coding on adjectives and categorizations on prepositions, both using prefixes.

Iliatarian phonotactics are of a fairly average complexity, with a rather small phoneme inventory and tendentially simple, disyllabic words but clusters, especially sequencing-violating clusters, permitted in all positions. Geminates can be reconstructed for Proto-Iliatarian and have been retained in Lerewe and Ngwano but lost in Sulutmuri.

Iliatarian phonotactics are of a fairly average complexity, with a rather small phoneme inventory and tendentially simple, disyllabic words but clusters, especially sequencing-violating clusters, permitted in all positions. Geminates can be reconstructed for Proto-Iliatarian and have been retained in Lerewe and Ngwano but lost in Sulutmuri.