Seuna sentence structure
The basic sentence structure is SVO. However if the S is indefinite, it immediately follows the verb.
The naked object is indefinite. To make it definite the affix -s is added. This suffix is only used with objects.
The affix -s is one of two inflections added to nouns. The other is -n which can be said to be locative case.
What some languages do with a complex case system, Seuna does with serial-verbs and prepositions.
Some common prepositions
o = w.r.t.
e = dative case
Other small words
i = and
Other small bits
u- = un-
-ɘ = serial verb marker = object incorporating marker
Examples
lari kludas e jene = I gave the book to Janet
lari jene kludas = I gave Janet the book.
lori sele nayo tentis = a boy gave him the key lori sele nayo tenti = a boy gave him a key sele lori nayo tenti = the boy gave him a key lori nayo tenti = he gave him a key lori nayo so = he gave it to him
The dative term is completely mobile.
sana = somebody ?? saso = something ??
Index
- Introduction to Seuna
- Seuna : Chapter 1
- Seuna word shape
- The script of Seuna
- Seuna sentence structure
- Seuna pronouns
- Seuna nouns
- Seuna verbs (1)
- Seuna adjectives
- Seuna demonstratives
- Seuna verbs (2)
- Asking a question in Seuna
- Seuna relative clauses
- Seuna verbs (3)
- Methods for deriving words in Seuna
- List of all Seuna derivational affixes
- Numbers in Seuna
- Naming people in Seuna
- The Seuna calendar
- Seuna units
