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That's actually pretty neat.
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Creyeditor wrote:That's actually pretty neat.
Thanks [:D]
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Yes and No
Yes and no have a wide variety of translations in Ởnh·Vú depending on the verb they are used in response to as well as the level of formality

Formal Yes
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Formal No
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Informal
亞À- Yes (also means Asia, character used for its pronunciation)
空Ỏ- No

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I'm liking those affirmative and negative responses! We don't see those all that often! I especially like that Sinitic loan for the formal "not have".

I like how instead of either going for a single particle for all cases, or with the verb-repetition strategy for all of them, you have a nice middle path with repetition permissible for a few common verbs. Is this a common pattern in Chamic or Southeast Asia more generally?
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Frislander wrote:I'm liking those affirmative and negative responses! We don't see those all that often! I especially like that Sinitic loan for the formal "not have".
Thanks. I'm quite a fan of that borrowing myself
Frislander wrote:I like how instead of either going for a single particle for all cases, or with the verb-repetition strategy for all of them, you have a nice middle path with repetition permissible for a few common verbs. Is this a common pattern in Chamic or Southeast Asia more generally?
From my understanding that's typically how it's done in Mandarin although unlike in Ởnh·Vú it can be done with any verb even if it isn't always done so
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I don't think I have any grammatical or syntactical topics left so if you guys have any suggestions for posts I'm all ears [:D]
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There's the sequential 'and'-stuff. You could embedd this in a general overview of clausal connectives.
Have we already heard anything about subordination? I would be interested.
Also you mentioned there is some construction where a verbs takes two objects, that are connected by possession. I would like to see concrete examples.
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Creyeditor wrote:In the first example you do not need an object because the verb is intransitive and the 'street' is just a location expressed by some adverbial-like construction. In the second example on the other hand the 'street' has become a proper object that cannot be omitted (see third example) and gets accusative case. I know that some language (Mandarin Chinese, I think) have periphrastic constructions to make a verb take more objects than it usually does.
Ah I think I see what you're saying. As objects can be omitted situations like this don't typically happen. With Mandarin afaik a verb that takes 2 objects use two that are in some one way related to each other. Ởnh·Vú would use possession in this case and can only take one direct object without the use of a conjunction
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Creyeditor wrote:There's the sequential 'and'-stuff. You could embedd this in a general overview of clausal connectives.
Have we already heard anything about subordination? I would be interested.
Thanks for reminding me of this. I'll cover clauses and conjunctions soon

Creyeditor wrote:Also you mentioned there is some construction where a verbs takes two objects, that are connected by possession. I would like to see concrete examples.
Sorry if I made it seem like it's a unique grammar point. What I was trying to say is that from what I can see verbs that take 2 objects seem to have one that is possessed by another. For example the verb could take both John and arm as objects. Rather than do this, Ởnh·Vú simply would use one object with something along the lines of john's arm.
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All4Ɇn wrote:
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Creyeditor wrote:Also you mentioned there is some construction where a verbs takes two objects, that are connected by possession. I would like to see concrete examples.
Sorry if I made it seem like it's a unique grammar point. What I was trying to say is that from what I can see verbs that take 2 objects seem to have one that is possessed by another. For example the verb could take both John and arm as objects. Rather than do this, Ởnh·Vú simply would use one object with something along the lines of john's arm.
Maybe you could expand this constuction two other ditransitive constructions. It would be cool, if you could say 'I brought [you-DAT] [a present]' and 'I brought [your present].' both exist and these two would alternate according to some semantic or syntactic condition [:)]
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Creyeditor wrote:Maybe you could expand this constuction two other ditransitive constructions. It would be cool, if you could say 'I brought [you-DAT] [a present]' [:)]
Well this construction already exists. Verbs can take both indirect and direct objects. They can't however take more than one indirect or direct without a preposition like they can in Mandarin
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Creyeditor wrote:
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Creyeditor wrote:Also you mentioned there is some construction where a verbs takes two objects, that are connected by possession. I would like to see concrete examples.
Sorry if I made it seem like it's a unique grammar point. What I was trying to say is that from what I can see verbs that take 2 objects seem to have one that is possessed by another. For example the verb could take both John and arm as objects. Rather than do this, Ởnh·Vú simply would use one object with something along the lines of john's arm.
Maybe you could expand this constuction two other ditransitive constructions. It would be cool, if you could say 'I brought [you-DAT] [a present]' and 'I brought [your present].' both exist and these two would alternate according to some semantic or syntactic condition [:)]
Sorry for bringing this up again. I guess I am just a bit too excited about this constrution [:D]
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Creyeditor wrote:Sorry for bringing this up again. I guess I am just a bit too excited about this constrution [:D]
Well both very much are possible
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Clausal Conjunctions
There are 2 kinds of clausal conjunctions: those that behave like relative clause nouns and those that don’t. There is no equivalent for the conjunction “that” and where it would be used the two sentences are simply joined together.

Those similar to relative clauses
𣅶 (Đrã)- When (present/future/recent past)
時 (Sưy)- When (distant past)
兜 (Lơnh)- Where
物 (Mut)- What/which
𠊛 (Ởnh)- Who
咦牢 (Ha·Khet)- Why
芇 (Ỹ)- How/the way
𠓀𢗼 (Đỉ·Lo)- Before
耒 (Húy)- After
𠓀捉 (Đỉ·Áo)- Until
Sample sentence:
倅䋃ヌ步𧶮𣅶 (Cư đrã·đrã lảt mờ đrã)- I was fast when I walked (1S.FAM fast walk prep)


Others
間於 (Ghen·Đi)- While/at the same time as
爲 (Cao)- Because/since
耒 (Húy)- (And) then
咍 (Áy)- Or
雖 (Suy)- Although
𤳄 (Cúy)- So
以 (Nuinh)- In order to
Sample sentence:
倅䋃ヌ雖湄 (Cư đrã·đrã suy hứy)- I was fast although it was raining (1s.FAM fast CONJ rain)
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The order of the clause and the connective is different, right?
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Creyeditor wrote:The order of the clause and the connective is different, right?
Yep. In the top ones the clause comes before the connective while in the bottom ones they come after
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Classifiers
Classifiers are placed between the number and the noun that they refer to. Classifiers are placed into 2 groups based on the kind of numbers they take: traditional or Chinese. Above 1000, all numbers are automatically Chinese numbers with no exceptions. Although Chinese counters tend to involve length and money, this is far from a rule and the which set of numbers a counter takes must be learned on its own. Below are some of the more common counters:

Traditional
𣘃 (Bè)- Long/thin/stick-like objects (bottles, rivers, ties, roads, sticks, etc.)
𧷺 (Bõ)- Round objects
丐 (Cà)- Any inanimate object without its own counter
𥟌 (Cả)- Bovids/deer
座 (Đừ)- Buildings/statues
鉗 (Ghém)- Fish/invertebrates
面 (Mèn)- Flat and smooth surfaces (e.g: flags, mirrors, walls)
人 (Nin)- People
瞂 (Pá)- Days
片 (Pẽn)- Thin/flat objects not made of paper (e.g: CDs, slices, movies, DVD’s)
𦑃 (Sãp)- Birds/bats
𦲿 (Vã)- Leaves, sheets and other thin items made out of leaves/paper
畫 (Vẽ)- Character strokes
回 (Vi)- Number of times/occurrences
𡓋 (Y)- Animals
神 (Yãnh)- Gods/spirits/holy people/weather phenomena

Chinese
倍 (Bứy)- Number of times something is multiplied
章 (Chanh)- Chapters
種 (Chónh)- Kinds/types/sorts
週 (Chu)- Weeks
層 (Đơnh)- Stories/Floors/Strata
銅 (Đunh)- Đồng
𣇞 (Đrả)- Hours
冊 (Đréc)- Books
之 (Mớ)- Seconds
年 (Nen)- Years
丿 (Pun)- Minutes
本 (Pứn)- Volumes (of books and movies)/issues (of magazines)/tv show episodes
歲 (Xờy)- Years of age
夜 (Yà)- Nights/overnight stays
曜 (Yè)- Days of the week
圓 (Yúin)- Yuan
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This is just a general question, but did this trait evolve from contact with Chinese and Austro-Asiatic? (and even less relevantly, are there any hypotheses linking that trait with Andamese?)
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qwed117 wrote:This is just a general question, but did this trait evolve from contact with Chinese and Austro-Asiatic? (and even less relevantly, are there any hypotheses linking that trait with Andamese?)
From my understanding, Proto-Chamic developed classifiers due to contact with Mon-Khmer and then further borrowed some counters from Malay which went through a similar process on its own. Similar to some other Proto-Chamic languages, Ởnh·Vú further extended its number of classifiers due to contact with Chinese. I haven't seen anything about a relation to that with Andamese but I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case
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Since I've finished grammar and syntax as far as I'm aware would you guys be interested in me covering some of the more complicated characters with multiple readings?
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What's the etymology of the word for "hour"?
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