Anyael: Articles and Nouns
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nyxelestiaHere, ye learn about the articles of Anyael - all 18 of them, as opposed to the three we have in English: the, a, and some.
An article is a determiner that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. The English articles are the, a, and some. Anyael articles are little more fluid than most, and serve a greater purpose to boot.
While verbs in Anyael are somewhat agglutinative/synthetic, nouns are fairly isolating in Anyael. They cannot be pluralized, and do not reflect number, or case. In otherwords, nouns, grammatically speaking, don't change at all. The articles reflect both number and case for them.
Case is basically altering a noun somehow to show its role in the sentence. English signifies this through word order, alone. Also, number is reflected as singular and plural in English nouns. "Noun" is singular, while "nouns' is plural. This is pretty much applicable to most nouns in the English language.
Any given article is made up of three parts. The first part reflects case, the second part reflect definiteness, and the third part reflects number.
So, put all together, and you get: the 24 articles of Anyael!
Nouns are completely static. "Nosrep" could mean human, or humans. (Or, more accurately for it's meaning, it could mean "person" or "people"). Often times, just "nosrep" might be used for expressions like, "for a person/for people".
So, here's what each part means for the average person:
Case
Definiteness + Number
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So, this seemed as good a place as any to put in what I need to of nouns.
The key thing is that while verbs are synthetic/agglutinative, nouns are isolating. They cannot be inherently singular or plural, or dictate case, or definiteness - that's all in the article. Nouns exist in a static state, and the only way to tell what lexical state they are in, without context, is by the article. They are static.
An article is a determiner that combines with a noun to indicate the type of reference being made by the noun. The English articles are the, a, and some. Anyael articles are little more fluid than most, and serve a greater purpose to boot.
While verbs in Anyael are somewhat agglutinative/synthetic, nouns are fairly isolating in Anyael. They cannot be pluralized, and do not reflect number, or case. In otherwords, nouns, grammatically speaking, don't change at all. The articles reflect both number and case for them.
Case is basically altering a noun somehow to show its role in the sentence. English signifies this through word order, alone. Also, number is reflected as singular and plural in English nouns. "Noun" is singular, while "nouns' is plural. This is pretty much applicable to most nouns in the English language.
Any given article is made up of three parts. The first part reflects case, the second part reflect definiteness, and the third part reflects number.
- Case
- Nominative: tu-
- Objective: ja-
- Genitive: dae-
- Definiteness
- Definite: -th-
- Indefinite: -z-
- Partitive: -k-
- Number
- Singular: -i
- Plural: -il (pronounced -eel)
So, put all together, and you get: the 24 articles of Anyael!
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Nouns are completely static. "Nosrep" could mean human, or humans. (Or, more accurately for it's meaning, it could mean "person" or "people"). Often times, just "nosrep" might be used for expressions like, "for a person/for people".
So, here's what each part means for the average person:
Case
- Nominative - subject
- Objective - object
- Genitive - possessive case (the noun is the possessor/owner)
Definiteness + Number
- Definite - the subject is identifiable to the listener
- Singular - "the" in English
- Plural - "los" in Spanish
- Indefinite - the subject is not identifiable to the listener
- Singular - "a" in English
- Plural - "some", as in multiple subjects that are unidentifiable
- Partitive - mass noun/countability issues
- Singular - again, "some", the kind you use this with mass nouns (i.e. 'water', 'food')
- Plural - also "some", turning countable nouns into mass nouns (i.e. some books, some cars, ect.)
So, this seemed as good a place as any to put in what I need to of nouns.
The key thing is that while verbs are synthetic/agglutinative, nouns are isolating. They cannot be inherently singular or plural, or dictate case, or definiteness - that's all in the article. Nouns exist in a static state, and the only way to tell what lexical state they are in, without context, is by the article. They are static.
