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[[Category:Besokian Languages]][[Category:Proto-Languages]] | [[Category:Besokian Languages]][[Category:Proto-Languages]] | ||
===Morphology=== | |||
Like that of its Soskish descendants, Proto-Besokian inflectional morphology is fairly simple and poor in forms. Only three inflectional prefixes are attested, a possessive marker ''îr-'' and the couplet ''î-'' and ''ê-'', the exact function of which is not known, but which based on use in descendant languages and attestation in the Old Besokian Cosmogony are presumed to have marked modal and local attributes, respectively. | |||
The Proto-Besokian derivational system is significantly more complex, if barely attested and largely lost in its descendants. A small number of independant affixes are used to express simple relationships, so the prefixes ''kô-'' and ''shê-'', deriving the feminine and masculine agent noun, respectively (the feminine form the default); while similar forms are preserved in the Kattasian languages, they have been replaced by Olgish ''-a'' and ''-in'' in both Soskish and Reknayan. A set of suffixes ''-êsh'', ''-an'', and ''-ôr'' with a function of denoting objects in different sizes (''-êsh'' the smallest and ''-ôr'' the largest) is attested on the Old Besokian World Map and preserved in several daughter languages. Compounding is common and well-attested, using an interfix ''-e-''. | |||
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