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| *blackwood[10] minor: ''mináth'' 'nocturnal' | | *blackwood[10] minor: ''mináth'' 'nocturnal' |
| *the different ways of subtly tuning/i.e. well-temperaments are called 'seasons' (that lengthen or shorten the day and night). | | *the different ways of subtly tuning/i.e. well-temperaments are called 'seasons' (that lengthen or shorten the day and night). |
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| ==Talsmic==
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| ===Themsarian===
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| In Themsarian the topic is NOT prominent - the topic comes immediately after the verb most of the time?
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| ===Old Vernacular Talsmic===
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| Old Vernacular Talsmic dialects are largely similar to Noble Themsarian, but there are grammatical, lexical and stylistic differences:
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| *Using the subject-infinitive more and more, eventually to express various aspectual and modal meanings.
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| **The synthetic preterite falls into disuse, being supplanted by the "after {{sc|infinitive-subject}}" construction.
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| *Collapses all state distinctions in adjectives (into the former predicative form)
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| *The dual is often not used, except for emphasis or stylistic reasons.
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| Given topic prominence and topicalization = fronting, new (discourse-new) subject is fronted, since it is new topic. Then this becomes a topic prominent/V2 language as in vernacular Talsmic. Relative clauses are by default VSO but can undergo fronting for focus. Discourse-new object is fronted as well.
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| ===Qelorian===
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| *The subject of a relative clause is indexed by adding a pronominal suffix on the head (if they are different)
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| ===Núrian===
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| "Double Irish" aesthetic? Namely, fricatives 'h' + aspiration written with 'h'. The same could be accomplished with slenderness with...?
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| ==Diachronics lab== | | ==Diachronics lab== |