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Āsoko Grammer
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From the Great Āsoko Grammer Reform and afterwards, a big list.
This public article was written by [Deactivated User], and last updated on 14 Oct 2020, 22:29.

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Menu 1. Relative (And Complement??) Clauses 2. Definite 3. TAM 4. Word Order 5. Mass Nouns 6. Negation 7. Questions 8. Pronoun Dropping 9. Everything Else
[edit] [top]Relative (And Complement??) Clauses

Āsoko's relative clauses are Adjoined Pronoun Retained. The Relative clause is attached with the conjunctions don and or oka for. When the relative/complement clauses are just a verb, you combine using for and put the verb in imperfective. Semi-Accurate Translations here.

[edit] [top]Definite

In Āsoko words are inherently indefinite UNLESS there a pronoun, proper noun, or marked with to-. Proper nouns can be marked with to- to stress there definite nature, but pronouns can not.
In some artistic pieces Definitive isn't marked at all and relies on context.


Tense
Asoko has 3 tenses; Past, Present, and Future. Even though Present tense is the unmarked tense, you can not assume the a verb is inherently present tense as some aesthetics or joke writing styles exclude tense.
Aspect
Asoko's Aspect uses separate affixes then tense and are completely optional in all formalities of Āsoko, but often used in formal speech. Āsoko marks the aspects of perfective and imperfective. The imperfective suffix -lo is considered dated and often not used. In Copula Sentences aspect isn't normally marked even in Formal Asoko. (so in "I am happy" aspect isn't marked, but in "I walked home" it is.)

[edit] [top]Word Order

Āsoko's basic word order is SVdOiO. Both nouns and verbs are Head-Initial.

[edit] [top]Mass Nouns

When talking about the amount of mass nouns in Āsoko, there are two different ways it is done, depending on whether we using finite amounts or non-finite amounts. For finite amounts you simply make it a relative clause. That would make something like "I have 20 liters of tea" into " I have tea, and it is 20 liters." When it comes to less finite amounts, Āsoko makes use of the prefix o- to make a word a classifier. Classifiers get treated as adjectives so they come after the main noun. So "Cup of Tea" would become "Tea o-Cup". Theoretically any noun can become a classifier for any mass noun using the prefix o-.

[edit] [top]Negation

Negation is marked with the verbal prefix on- or the word on no. Double negatives in a sense do nothing and the sentence remains negative.

[edit] [top]Questions

Questions are marked with the particle mo. To ask interrogative questions you add the word for the type of information before the sentence. You can also reformat the question so the interrogative word is the object and add no-. So to ask "When do we go?" you would say "Ale, no do mo?" or "No do noale mo?"

[edit] [top]Pronoun Dropping

In more informal versions of Asoko pronouns can be dropped in the subject. This most seen with mosō, and in artistic pieces.

[edit] [top]Everything Else

Until I figure out what Asoko will do with the rest of grammar, assume that is is technically up to the user but is often done like English or like a Relative Clause.
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