Classical Seesh: Lesson #1: Word order
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The basics of constructing a sentence in Classical Seesh
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[comments] shrmlessonslesson 1 Word order is a common feature in most natural languages, and is essential is speaking and writing clear sentences. English, for those unaware, generally structures sentences as a subject, then a verb, than an optional object. Obviously, not all sentences work like this, but this is the core of speaking the language. Classical Seesh uses a different system which structures sentences as a verb, followed by the subject, then an optional object. This might intimidate some learners away from Classical Seesh, and Dēnt-lōōnmil Seesh, which uses a SV(O) word-order like English, is a reasonable alternative. But you're all language-learning veterans and can deal with VS(O).
There's a few more internal structures within the VS(O) word-order, with the major ones being the adjectives/adverbs, the demonstratives, the postpositions and the agglutination/reduplication. I'm going to assume you're familiar with these terms, and I'll just run through the rules:
Adjectives always go after the noun they're modifying, the same's true for adverbs. Don't stack adjectives or adverbs; one per word.
Demonstratives come before the word they modify and are connected to the modified word with a hyphen. Demonstratives are very common, and are often used to replace what would normally be an accusative noun.
Reduplicate anything. Whole words, parts of words, suffixes, whatever; just be sure the stress stays on the initial word.
Agglutination is encouraged, and very common in quick/casual speech, but Classical Seeshite isn't really agglutinative; its just got really long words. Placing stress is really important; stress should be placed on the word that's most important. Take this word: baadōzhiilzīīɸdol. This word consists of baadōzhiil, meaning bear, and zīīɸdol, meaning child. If the fact that the child is a bear is more important than the fact that the bear is a child, then 'baadōzhiilziiɸdol' would be the most accurate term. If the most important fact is that it's a child, then 'baadozhiilzīīɸdol' would be the ideal word to use. Words must still follow the adjective/adverb-location rule, so baarāāldaasoōzd would be logical (literally 'duck-black' but means 'duck who's black') but soōzdbaarāāldaa would be anywhere from weird to nonsense (literally 'black-duck', but means 'black who's a duck'.
Postpositions are treated the same as English preposition but placed, as you'd expect, after the thing they modify. For example: in English 'I run along a road'; word-for-word in Classical Seesh: "Run I road-along". To help keep organized, the modified word is hyphenated with the modifier.
For those of you interested in testing yourself, I've attached an example sentence and word bank.
The young man walks alone to a small river.
man => tāāb
walks => sāmolo
alone => ashiidīībil
to => a
river => māāzaz
small => olīl
young => dīīmral
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