Otzeipaonese: Difference between revisions
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=== Verbs === | === Verbs === | ||
Otzeipaonese is one of the few Ukilen languages which features polypersonal agreement. Otzeipaonese can index the subject, direct, and indirect objects of a sentence inside the verb complex, setting the language apart even further from both of it's parent languages. Otzeipaonese features two moods — the indicative and subjunctive — three tenses — the far past, past, and non-past — and two aspects — the imperfective and perfective. | Otzeipaonese is one of the few Ukilen languages which features polypersonal agreement. Otzeipaonese can index the subject, direct, and indirect objects of a sentence inside the verb complex, setting the language apart even further from both of it's parent languages. Otzeipaonese is notable in that its verb behave ergatively; the subject markers of an intransitive verb are identical to the direct object of transitive verbs. The reason for this behavior, which has been referred to as Otzeipaonese verb misalignment, has not been determined. | ||
Otzeipaonese features two moods — the indicative and subjunctive — three tenses — the far past, past, and non-past — and two aspects — the imperfective and perfective. | |||
== Morphophonology == | == Morphophonology == | ||
== Writing system == | == Writing system == | ||