Lesson #1: Nouns
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1. Lesson #1: Nouns
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Nouns and adjectives in Kvian decline to 2 numbers: singular and plural, as well as 6 cases: absolutive, ergative, vocative, genitive, lative, and ablative. The absolutive also serves as the dative and the nominative in the future tense (more on that in a later lesson).
Absolutive: the object of a transitive verb, and the subject of an intransitive verb.
Dative: the indirect object of a verb.
Ergative: the Agent of a transitive verb.
Vocative: addressing the noun.
Genitive: possessive as well as most uses of English "of."
Lative: moving towards/into the noun.
Ablative: moving away from/from out of the noun.
Nouns are formed with the following structure:
Prefix*+root**+suffix+genitive pronoun+ending
*prefixes on nouns are rare, and limited to only two examples: k(a)- "opposite of" and oy- "former"
**Nominals and verbs have different endings, so a stem might be inherently verbal but a noun can be derived from it.
Example:
Oyyūrleos
Oy-herd-deverbal agent-3SG-ABS.SG
"His ex master"
Kvian is strongly head initial, and this holds true for noun phrases. NP's are ordered as such:
Noun-indefinite article/numeral-adjective(s)-possessive pronoun
Kotā bat mekat ye. Dog two black their "Their two black dogs"
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