Difference between revisions of "Proto-Besokian language"

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===Morphology===

===Morphology===

Like that of its [[Soskish languages|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 [[Besokian Cosmogony]] are presumed to have marked modal and local attributes, respectively.

Like that of its [[Soskish languages|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 [[Besokian Cosmogony]] are presumed to have marked modal and local attributes, respectively.

Beside the independent affixes, Proto-Besokian seems to have had an extensive and complex derivational system, which is not preserved in any of its daughter languages and only sparingly attested in the textual record. It appears to make use of both pre- and suffixes and stem-vowel changes, so deriving an (attested) word ''hatânishor'' ‘journey’ from an (attested) root ''tûnish''. Items derived in this way seem to retain stress on the original stem vowel, explaining irregularities in the Soskish and Kattasian stress systems.

Beside the independent affixes, Proto-Besokian seems to have had an extensive and complex derivational system, which is not preserved in any of its daughter languages and only sparingly attested in the textual record. It appears to make use of both pre- and suffixes and stem-vowel changes, so deriving an (attested) word ''hatânishor'' ‘journey’ from an (attested) root ''tûnish''. Items derived in this way seem to retain stress on the original stem vowel, explaining irregularities in the Soskish and Kattasian stress systems.