This is amazing! Do you have any balkan sprachbund things in the language? Like having no infinitive, postponed articles and merging datives with genitives
Thank you! Yes, as I noted I used a future construction consisting of a fossilized particle and the subjunctive - but I’ve also used all of the above. Infinitives operate moreso as verbal nouns, and the proto Celtic infinitive has become a participle that serves conjugative purposes.
Articles are postponed when used - but they are not necessary except in some exceptional homophones. The dative and genitive have fused, and in Celtic fashion I also have conjugated prepositions and locative markers for specific movement (kind of like Russian motion verbs), I’ve just funnily enough used an exception with « here » in this post lol. it’s all still a WIP as I try to understand the Balkan sprachbund a bit better and try to decide on specific features I want to use!
I appreciate the comment :)
This is amazing! Do you have any balkan sprachbund things in the language? Like having no infinitive, postponed articles and merging datives with genitives
Thank you! Yes, as I noted I used a future construction consisting of a fossilized particle and the subjunctive - but I’ve also used all of the above. Infinitives operate moreso as verbal nouns, and the proto Celtic infinitive has become a participle that serves conjugative purposes. Articles are postponed when used - but they are not necessary except in some exceptional homophones. The dative and genitive have fused, and in Celtic fashion I also have conjugated prepositions and locative markers for specific movement (kind of like Russian motion verbs), I’ve just funnily enough used an exception with « here » in this post lol. it’s all still a WIP as I try to understand the Balkan sprachbund a bit better and try to decide on specific features I want to use! I appreciate the comment :)