Onkomi Morphology
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How the bits do the thing with the other bits to make the things that mean things.
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1. Onkomi Morphology
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2. Onkomi Numbers
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3. Onkomi Syntax
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Verbs conjugate for tense, aspect, mood, and voice. Tense and aspect ending fuse together and agglutinate onto mood and voice ending which also agglutinate onto each other, if that makes any sense, I don't know what I'm doing with these words. Verbs also fall under on of four classes, defined by their endings, that determines how those verbs conjugate.
Class I - ends in a front vowel (i, e, a).
Class II - ends in a back vowel (o, ō, u, ū).
Class III - ends in a centre vowel (â, ô).
Class IV - ends in a consonant.
Tense and Aspect
Conjugation table for Class I.
| Tense | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ø | NPSTNon-past (tense) present, continuous and future | PTPast tense (tense) action occurred before moment of speech | RECRecent past tense (tense) events which occurred in the recent past | ||
| Aspect | GNOGnomic (aspect/mood) common, timeless truths |
- u | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| PROGProgressive (aspect) be verb-ing |
- | - | - â | - shi | |
| PFVPerfective (aspect) completed action |
- ot | - ot | - ât | - shâ | |
| IPFVImperfective (aspect) 'interrupted or incomplete' |
- oku | - oku | - âku | - âshu | |
| INCHInchoative (aspect) 'beginning, becoming' |
- tau | - tau | - âtau | - shita | |
| CESCessative (aspect) exiting/ending a state |
- kona | - kona | - kâna | - kashi | |
Class I Table.
Class II Table.
Class III Table.
Class IV Table.
In all conjugations (excepting Class IV) the conjugation replaces the final vowel, with special conjugations for words in which that would violate phonotactics by placing an incorrect consonant at the end of a syllable, for example:
wansa (swim) > wansashi (PROGProgressive (aspect)
be verb-ing.RECRecent past tense (tense)
events which occurred in the recent past)
wansa cannot conjugate regularly, creating wansshi, as that would place [s] at the end of a syllable, and so a vowel is inserted into the space to keep the word viable.
Mood and Voice
Adjectives all end in [a], which is replaced with other vowels in inflection. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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