Dundulanyä: Difference between revisions

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===Nouns===

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The consensus among linguists is that Dundulanyä does not have grammatical gender or noun classes; however, it should be noted that natural gender is shown on some nouns referring to humans, and furthermore there are some verbs that have a complementary distribution - most notably the existential "to be" - where one verb can only be used for inanimate subjects and another only for animate ones; in a few cases, the animate "class" is also split between humans and non-humans. None of this, however, is reflected in morphology.

Dundulanyä declensions are primarily categorized by whether they refer to nouns that undergo ablaut or not; secondarily, they are categorized by their stem type.

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* Zero-ending nouns with stems ending in liquids (''-l'' or ''-r''), nasals (''-m'' or ''-n'') or the glottal stop (''-h'') (second consonant stem declension)

* Nouns with vowel-final stems.

** The extremely common ''-a'' declension is a particular case, as it behaves in some forms like a consonant stem declension, and like a vowel stem in others. Both for ablauting and non-ablauting declensions, ''-a'' and ''-e'' declensions most likely marked some kind of noun class distinction in the proto-language, which has been lost in the evolution of what became Dundulanyä.

====Bound forms====

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 ===Nouns===
 (TBA: introduction, declension)
+The consensus among linguists is that Dundulanyä does not have grammatical gender or noun classes; however, it should be noted that natural gender is shown on some nouns referring to humans, and furthermore there are some verbs that have a complementary distribution - most notably the existential "to be" - where one verb can only be used for inanimate subjects and another only for animate ones; in a few cases, the animate "class" is also split between humans and non-humans. None of this, however, is reflected in morphology.
 Dundulanyä declensions are primarily categorized by whether they refer to nouns that undergo ablaut or not; secondarily, they are categorized by their stem type.
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 * Zero-ending nouns with stems ending in liquids (''-l'' or ''-r''), nasals (''-m'' or ''-n'') or the glottal stop (''-h'') (second consonant stem declension)
 * Nouns with vowel-final stems.
+** The extremely common ''-a'' declension is a particular case, as it behaves in some forms like a consonant stem declension, and like a vowel stem in others. Both for ablauting and non-ablauting declensions, ''-a'' and ''-e'' declensions most likely marked some kind of noun class distinction in the proto-language, which has been lost in the evolution of what became Dundulanyä.
 ====Bound forms====