Grammar

4 pages · 654 words

1.

Transitivity

There are two strategies used in Kalavan Baoran to change the transitivity of verbs. The dummy pronoun "ba," from the un…

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2.

Verb Tenses

Kalavan Baoran verbs inflect for three distinct tenses: non-past, present progressive, and past. This inflexion occurs i…

214 words

3.

Dative Case

Dative CaseMost linguists are familiar with the four core cases of Kalavan Baoran: ergative, absolutive, genitive, and p…

234 words

4.

Temporal Pronouns

Auxiliary Verbs and Temporal PronounsDue to syntactic influence from the SVO Wahitian languages (Haqraam in particular),…

138 words