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'''Classical Arithide | The '''grammar of Classical Arithide''' is characterised by a degree of inflection unseen in most modern tongues, and notably absent from its own [[Modern Arithide|modern descendant]]. Due to this inflectionary tendency, [[Classical Arithide]] possesses considerably free word order, especially in poetry, but syntax commonly and usually retains the traditional order of Subject Object Verb. Classical Arithide is left-branching, prepositional, verb-framed, and pro-drop; it does not use articles. | ||
The Classical Arithide inflection system involves 9 declension classes of nouns, each inflected for 11 cases; two classes of verbs, each conjugated in three voices, three aspects and six moods, and which each produce an assortment of various derivative forms; two classes of adjectives, the nominal behaving like regular nouns, and the verbal behaving like regular verbs; adverbs, the most common of which are generally indeclinable but most of which are derivations of adjectives and hence declined as per their class. | |||
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Revision as of 18:17, 13 January 2007
The grammar of Classical Arithide is characterised by a degree of inflection unseen in most modern tongues, and notably absent from its own modern descendant. Due to this inflectionary tendency, Classical Arithide possesses considerably free word order, especially in poetry, but syntax commonly and usually retains the traditional order of Subject Object Verb. Classical Arithide is left-branching, prepositional, verb-framed, and pro-drop; it does not use articles.
The Classical Arithide inflection system involves 9 declension classes of nouns, each inflected for 11 cases; two classes of verbs, each conjugated in three voices, three aspects and six moods, and which each produce an assortment of various derivative forms; two classes of adjectives, the nominal behaving like regular nouns, and the verbal behaving like regular verbs; adverbs, the most common of which are generally indeclinable but most of which are derivations of adjectives and hence declined as per their class.
