Anyone want to start on the grammar already?

[kadani]

Yes, ongoing discussions about phonology can still invalidate whatever we discuss here, but in phonology discussions I feel like a fish out of water.

So... To start the discussion: I have been thinking about tenses and that they are not in all languages, especially creoles often lack them and compensate by a rich aspect system. These languages are supposed to be easy, our language is also supposed to be easy or at least not too weird, so I suggest that we also have something similar. I propose a perfective, progressive, inceptive, terminative, habitual, and maybe also pausative and resumptive aspects. Anyone with me?

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[PeteBleackley]

How about noun morphology? I suggest something simple but a little unusual.

Number singular and plural

Cases
Nominative (subject)
Genitive (posessor or source)
Accusative (object of monotransitive verb, recipient of ditransitive verb, destination of motion)
Secundative (theme of ditransitive verb)

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[kadani]

[PeteBleackley]

Not a different name for the dative case. In the sentence "I give the dog a bone", its

I-nom give dog-acc bone-sec

Whereas with a dative you'd have

I-nom give dog-dat bone-acc

[kadani]

I see. Seems to be strange, but then, I like it. I cautiously agree but might vehemently disagree when I wake up.

[MicroBalrog]

If you want to make this as sadistically complex as possible, I suggest adding an ablative and a vocative.

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[Miatato]