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CONLANGCONLANG for TEFc Alison and Toya

VERBS

Positivity – Direction – Root – (Aspect – Time) - Transitivity

Root
A root in its verb form acquires the ending [oː]

Positivity marks the likeliness and possibility of the root & stem's truthfulness.
[sɪ] or ∅	true / correct / positivity (if ∅, the verb is implied to be true)
[ʃɪ]		probably true
[ɪ] 		equally possible to be true or false / maybe
[ʒɪ]		probably false
[zɪ]		false / wrong / negative

Direction marks the way that the verb occurs
[ə] or ∅	forwards / normally (if ∅, the verb is implied to be going forward)
[gə]		opposite the norm
[kə]		backwards from the norm
[hə]		repeating the verb, doing it again

Aspect defines the temporal flow of the verb
[vi]		happens only once in all of time
[i] or ∅	happens once, then stops (if ∅, the verb is implied to have happened once)
[fi]		happens more than once, repeatedly
[ɸi]		happens continuously (when accompanied by [hə] direction, this implies “still”)

Tense defines when the verb occurred
[dɑ]		past / happened in ancient history
[ɾɑ] 		past / happened a long time ago
[ɹɑ] 		past / happened recently
[ɑ]  or ∅	present / is happening right now (if ∅, the verb is implied to be happening now)
[lɑ] 		future / will happen soon
[ɫɑ] 		future / will happen at some point in the forseeable future
[tɑ] 		future / will happen someday in eternity

Transitivity refers to whether a verb has an object
∅		intransitive
[fː]		transitive


Examples

[nɑɹmoː] to eat
	[nɑɹm] by itself is the root, it refers to the concept of eating. The additional suffix [oː] makes it a verb.

[nɑɹmoːfi] eats every day

[kənɑɹmoːɹɑ] vomited
	The opposite of eating is vomiting. Prefix [kæ] inverts the meaning of [nɑɹmoː] first, then suffix [ɹɑ] makes it past tense

[lː kənɑɹmoːlɑ] I'm going to vomit (soon)!

[ʤʤ nɑɹmoːlɑ] You will eat soon.

[l: nɑɹmo:ɫɑ] I will eat later

[l: zɪnɑɹmo:ɹɑ] I haven't eaten (recently).

[ʧʧ sɪnɑɹmo:vilɑ ʤʤ] It will definitely eat you (and that will be it)!
	The [sɪ] is not necessary to convey meaning, but it provides the emphatic definitely in this warning. The [vi] is used because a person can only be eaten once in eternity. It could have been left off (because nothing in its slot would still be true, a monster eating a person will only eat them once. But [vi] is included again for emphasis, hence the and that will be it.