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* Abilitative mood [ABIL] is marked with '''-pa''' from '''pala''' meaning "be able; can; possible". It can also be thought of as the potential mood [POT]. | * Abilitative mood [ABIL] is marked with '''-pa''' from '''pala''' meaning "be able; can; possible". It can also be thought of as the potential mood [POT]. | ||
* Desiderative mood [DES] is marked with '''-ue''' from '''ueha''' meaning "want; desire; wish (for)". It can also be thought of as the volitive, or optative mood. | |||
Revision as of 14:57, 19 May 2021
Syntax
Kala is primarily SOV (Subject-Object-Verb), but throughout this grammar is referred to as APV (Agent-Patient-Verb). The patient is most often marked for the accusative case (-n), however pronouns are marked with e-, and a topic marker ke is precedes the patient that is being topicalized.
- na tiyan ueha
- 1s bread-ACC want
- I want bread.
Particles
Syntactic particles that mark phrases in various ways ...
- ka is the interrogative particle [Q] and always occurs finnaly.
- ta anya ka
- 2SG see Q
- Do you see?
- ma - and; also; too; as well (as), basic noun phrase conjunction
Nouns
Gender
Gender is not normally marked...
- Masculine gender [MASC] is marked with -ta from tlaka meaning "man; male".
- Feminine gender [FEM] is marked with -na from naka meaning "woman; female".
Verbs
Moods
- Abilitative mood [ABIL] is marked with -pa from pala meaning "be able; can; possible". It can also be thought of as the potential mood [POT].
- Desiderative mood [DES] is marked with -ue from ueha meaning "want; desire; wish (for)". It can also be thought of as the volitive, or optative mood.
