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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
In Wiobian, all nouns are capitalized. However, words beginning a sentence need not be capitalized. | In Wiobian, all nouns are capitalized. However, words beginning a sentence need not be capitalized. | ||
===Typology=== | |||
The language is SVO (with more variation in poetry), and prepositions are preferred to postpositions. However, nominal modifiers precede the modified noun. | |||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
In Classical Wiobian, nouns have a singular-plural distinction and are | In Classical Wiobian, nouns have a singular-plural distinction and are inflected in 5 cases: | ||
*Nominative: subject | *Nominative: subject | ||
*Accusative: direct object | *Accusative: direct object, some adverbial expressions | ||
*Dative: indirect object, adverbial expressions | *Dative: indirect object, some adverbial expressions | ||
*Genitive: it's your bog-standard genitive case | *Genitive: it's your bog-standard genitive case | ||
*Predicative: predicate | *Predicative: predicate | ||
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|colspan="2"|[PAST]''-''Ø | |colspan="2"|[PAST]''-''Ø | ||
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===Syntactic constructions=== | |||
====Relative clauses==== | |||
Relative clauses are internally headed in the following way: The first constituent | |||
====Perfect tense==== | ====Perfect tense==== | ||