Laur
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The Laur Language
Laur (ʟɑʊɹ) is a conlang authored by Taras. It possesses the following distinctive features:
- Verbal roots which exist in aspectual pairs
- A system of trivative logic; i.e. morphological changes to a verb that cause it to denote a categorically affirmative, negative, or neutral action. All verbs in Laur are inherently neutral. This system eliminates many uses of the subjunctive mood in other languages.
- A system of preverbs, verbal prefixes, series markers, and verbal suffixes similar to verbal structures of many polysynthetic languages. In certain semantic cases the patient can be incorporated into the verb.
- A split-ergative case structure with temporal distinction.
- An auxiliary form of the verb "to be" that does not inflect for tense or aspect but is served by floating particles in the clause. It attaches directly to adjectives and substantives, and as a copula it is absent except in adverbial constructions.
- Two numeric systems used for different things - the kadun operates on base-20 while the saiodun is base-12.
- Strong and Weak nouns - strong nouns possess an oblique form for inflection. All substantives also have a bound form used in genitival constructions.
