Difference between revisions of "Seligonian Languages"

Proto-Seligonian was most likely an analytical language on the brink of agglutination, and most of its descendants show a similar structure, with fully concatenative verbal morphology but unbound particles for casus coding, the latter usually blending into a paradigmatic system trough frequent cliticizations like in Armundic and Old Velosti. Remarkable is the high degree of fusion in both categories, with even the case particles of Proto-Seligonian presumably already fusing case, gender, and number (although the seams are oftentimes still apparent), and all of its daughter languages readily accepting single affixes in their paradigms. The vast majority of Seligonian languages is strictly lexeme-initial and inflection-final, with noun phrases headed by a left-edge noun and closed by a particle on the right edge, enclosing adjuncts in between them. Word order is commonly free, with SOV the usual preference.