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A basic explanation of nominal inflection and derivation
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Nominal Morphology
Nouns in Soulla come in two classes: animate and inanimate. Each class declines to 7 cases.
Animate nouns behave as nominative-accusative and decline to the following cases:
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -a | -an |
| Accusative | -á | -án |
| Genitive | -va | -van |
| Dative | -as | -as |
| Locative | -ap | -ap |
| Instrumental | -ja | -jan |
| Vocative | -am | -man |
The locative and dative cases don't show plural, and rely on the article to show it instead.
Unlike animate nouns, inanimate nouns are ergative-absolutive, and decline to the following cases:
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| Absolutive | -u | -un |
| Ergative | -uv | -vun |
| Genitive | -ttu | -ttun |
| Dative | -pru | -prun |
| Locative | -ash | -ash |
The Locative and instrumental cases have merged in inanimate nouns, and the Locative case serves both purposes. The postposition "ákva" can be used in situations where this might be ambiguous.
Inanimate nouns also don't have a vocative case. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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