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Nouns and their entourage
DAY FIVE - Noun modification
Right, so we have suffixes for noun cases as of yesterday, which led to my train of thought going to adjectives and nouns-acting-as-adjectives.
When you have a word modifying a noun, it gets attached to the beginning. e.g. [book][store][case], a store of the variety that sells books. This got me thinking of my possessive methods; the possessive form of a word usually attaches to a word syntactically like an adjective. "Suzie's book", for example, has the book as the word, and the modifier as "Suzie's". THEREFORE, I have decided that the possessive suffix gets added to the word being attached at the beginning as a modifier. e.g. [book][gen-case][Suzie][case]
In addition, there's a suffix that you can attach to a noun to mark it as an adjective before attaching it to the noun you want to modify it with. This happens a lot for, say, colors.
I think... adjectives will all end in that suffix "normally", as well. Now the question is, do I want it to start with a consonant or a vowel...? Time to look at my alphabet again~
Okay, a decision has been made. The suffix for adjective construction is going to be -vcv, with the last v being dropped if the noun it modifies starts with e i or y. The actual suffix... is going to be -itsa. Actual adjectives sometimes end in a different vowel, so they could end in e.g. -itse
Additionally, for the 'locative' case, there needs to be an indication of... directionality, so to speak. I decided last night that this gets inserted between the noun and the case suffix... so I guess now I need to come up with what they are, eh?
Directionality infixes
near/around: -ly-
towards: -ap-
away from: -kho-
above: -yre-
below: -ush-
That's enough for today, I think.
Right, so we have suffixes for noun cases as of yesterday, which led to my train of thought going to adjectives and nouns-acting-as-adjectives.
When you have a word modifying a noun, it gets attached to the beginning. e.g. [book][store][case], a store of the variety that sells books. This got me thinking of my possessive methods; the possessive form of a word usually attaches to a word syntactically like an adjective. "Suzie's book", for example, has the book as the word, and the modifier as "Suzie's". THEREFORE, I have decided that the possessive suffix gets added to the word being attached at the beginning as a modifier. e.g. [book][gen-case][Suzie][case]
In addition, there's a suffix that you can attach to a noun to mark it as an adjective before attaching it to the noun you want to modify it with. This happens a lot for, say, colors.
I think... adjectives will all end in that suffix "normally", as well. Now the question is, do I want it to start with a consonant or a vowel...? Time to look at my alphabet again~
Okay, a decision has been made. The suffix for adjective construction is going to be -vcv, with the last v being dropped if the noun it modifies starts with e i or y. The actual suffix... is going to be -itsa. Actual adjectives sometimes end in a different vowel, so they could end in e.g. -itse
Additionally, for the 'locative' case, there needs to be an indication of... directionality, so to speak. I decided last night that this gets inserted between the noun and the case suffix... so I guess now I need to come up with what they are, eh?
Directionality infixes
near/around: -ly-
towards: -ap-
away from: -kho-
above: -yre-
below: -ush-
That's enough for today, I think.