Case and Stress in the Speech of the New West
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Nominal and pronominal cases; stress placement in major parts of speech
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The Speech of the New West (SotNW) has 6 nominal cases. They are demonstrated in the table below using armo, person (n.), as an example.
| armo, person (n.) | Nominative NOMNominative (case) TRANS subject, INTR argument | Genitive GENGenitive (case) possessive | Dative DATDative (case) indirect object; recipient, beneficiary, location | Instrumental INSInstrumental (case) 'with', 'using' | Ablative ABLAblative (case) away from | Locative LOCLocative (case) 'in, on, at' etc |
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one countable entity |
/ˈarmɒ/ | /ˈarmɒn/ | /armˈara/ | /arˈmir/ | /ˈarmɛn/ | /ˈarmɛ/ |
more than one/few |
/ˈarma/ | /ˈarman/ | /arma.ˈára/ | /arma.ˈir/ | /arma.ˈɛn/ | /ˈarmɛ.a/ |
For the locative case in a word ending in two vowels (e.g. rio /ˈriɒ/, object), an r is inserted before the -e suffix in the singular form (e.g. are rire /ˈarɛ ˈrirɛ/ - on the/an object), and between the e and a in the -ea suffix in the plural form (e.g. en riare /ɛn ˈri.arɛ/ - in the objects) in order to make pronunciation easier.
The Speech of the New West has 7 pronominal cases. They are demonstrated in the table below using the third person singular masculine in as an example. There are lot more irregular forms for pronouns than there are for nouns (e.g. in particular in 3PThird person plural (person)
neither speaker nor addressee, they/them inay), meaning the table below is a good guide but is most certainly not a list of unbreakable grammatical laws. ✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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