Morphosyntax of Ame
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Ame is an analytic language, it is isolating in terms of inflectional affixes; however, it has a substantial amount of derivational affixes, including prefixes and suffixes, and evidence suggests that it might have verbal inflections in the past.
Syntax
Word Order
- Basic Word Order: Subject-Verb-Object-Complements(SVO)
- Adpositions are prepositions
- Numerals and demonstratives precede the noun they modify; possessors, relative clauses follow the noun they modify; adjectives can precede or follow the noun they modify
In intransitive sentences, the word order is usually SV; however, in certain structures the word order can be VS. When the verb is the existential verb yai "to exist", ni "to not exist" or when the predicative is an adjective and the subject is a phrase or clause, the word order is often VS.
Definiteness
There's a definite article da, which is placed before the noun it modifies. The definite article does not change according the gender, animacy, number, case, etc. of the noun:
- da ya - the person
- da kokara - the duck
- da koza - the house
Demonstratives also indicate definiteness. For example:
- ani koza - this house
- ada koza - that house
Demonstratives are not used with the definite article, the following combinations are ungrammatical:
- *da ani koza
- *ada da koza
Negation
To negate a phrase, one puts ne before the verbal phrase ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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