I wonder if working on morphology is my favorite part of conlanging – I seem to spend a lot of time on it! Anyway, I worked a bit on Rayanese verb and noun morphology.
For verbs, I decided to add several aspects, to give more information on a singular verb form. This is what my verb aspect suffix table looks like now:
| neutral | - |
| perfect | -ke |
| recent perfect (“just” completed action) | -kay |
| progressive | -ga |
| habitual | -yo |
| prospective (“about to”) | -ya |
| inchoative/inceptive (“start to”) | -fu |
| cessative/terminative (“stop”) | -hi |
| completive (“finish”) | -ha |
Verbs aspects are in the second suffix slot, after the optional causative suffix. I can give an example of these aspects using the verb skat to eat in the 1sg present indicative form:
| skaf | I eat |
| skakef | I have eaten |
| skakayf | I just ate / I have just eaten |
| skagaf | I am eating |
| skayof | I usually eat |
| skayaf | I am about to eat |
| skafuf | I start to eat / I am starting to eat |
| skahif | I stop eating |
| skahaf | I finish eating |
For noun morphology, I decided to introduce some metathesis to liven up the noun declensions just a little. The metathesis occurs in the genitive and instrumental plural forms. Here I’ll use the plurals of huz male twin and deru man as examples":
| nominative | huzar | derun |
| accusative | huzarga | derungu |
| genitive | huzazra | deruznu |
| dative | huzarja | derunju |
| instrumental | huzavra | deruvnu |
| allative | huzarba | derumbu |
| ablative | huzarda | derundu |
| locative | huzarksa | derunksu |
Coming up soon, how to deal with possession!
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