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The Ancestral Adverb

Brent — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:03:31 +0000

The Ancestral adverb typically precedes the verb it modifies and is normally introduced (or marked) by one or more classificatory particles. In Ancestral, an adverb is in origin a noun to which the head verb is being compared. He runs … Continue reading →

The Ancestral Adnoun

Brent — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:34:23 +0000

The Ancestral adnoun typically precedes the noun it modifies and is normally introduced (or marked) by one or more classificatory particles. In Ancestral, an adnoun is in origin a noun to which the head noun is being compared. ‘sky eyes’ … Continue reading →

The Ancestral Particle

Brent — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:17:05 +0000

Every Ancestral verb, adverb, noun, or adnoun is normally introduced (or marked) by one or more particles. These particles (which might also be referred to as function words) create the framework of an Ancestral sentence and perform the work of English conjunctions, expletives, interjections, prepositions, pronouns, suffixes, etc. To date, I have tentatively identified the following Ancestral particles:

The Adpositional Particle
The Affirmative Particle
The Agentive Particle
The Augmentative Particle
The Collective Particle
The Commissive Particle
The Coordinative Particle
The Correlative Particle
The Demonstrative Particle
The Diminutive Particle
The Dual Particle
The Evidential Particle
The Expletive Particle
The Feminine Particle
The Interjective Particle
The Interrogative Particle
The Masculine Particle
The Mirative particle
The Modal Particle
The Negative Particle
The Patient Particle
The Paucal Particle
The Prohibitive Particle
The Pro-Adnoun Particle
The Pro-Adverb Particle
The Pro-Noun Particle
The Pro-Verb Particle
The Quotative Particle
The Singulative Particle
The Subordinative Particle
The Trial Particle

The Ancestral Verb

Brent — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:55:48 +0000

Introduction

The canonical Ancestral verb is composed of two distinct but interlocking elements:

A biconsonantal semantic root
A bivocalic stative transfix (infix/suffix)

In other words, the basic Ancestral verb takes the form C1 + V1 + C2 + V1 where:

C1 _ C2 _ denotes the meaning of the verb
_ V1 _ V1 denotes the state of the verb

The Ancestral verb also makes extensive use of various forms of reduplication.

An interesting feature of Ancestral is that every noun is in effect a “frozen” verb, that is a “being” (animate or inanimate) at a particular moment in time or space.

The Ancestral Noun

Brent — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:42:28 +0000

Introduction

The canonical Ancestral noun is composed of two distinct but interlocking elements:

A biconsonantal semantic root
A bivocalic stative transfix (infix/suffix)

In other words, the basic Ancestral noun takes the form C1 + V1 + C2 + V1 where:

C1 _ C2 _ denotes the meaning of the noun
_ V1 _ V1 denotes the state of the noun

The Ancestral noun also makes extensive use of various forms of reduplication.

An interesting feature of Ancestral is that every noun is in effect a “frozen” verb, that is a “being” (animate or inanimate) at a particular moment in time.