Grammar of the Novegradian Language

Граматика Лизика Новеградескаево

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1.Background - Introduction, Relationships, History

2.Phonology - Vowels, Consonants, Allophony, Constraints, Stress

3.Writing - Alphabet, Spelling Rules, Foreign Loans

4.Verbal Morphology - Tenses, Aspects, Conjugation, Participles, Adverbials

5.Nominal Morphology - Gender, Cases, Declensions, Topicalization

6.Adjectival Morphology - Short Form Adjectives, Topicalized Adjectives, Comparatives, Superlatives

7.Numerals - Cardinals, Ordinals, Animacy

8.Pronouns - Personal pronouns, Declension, Possessives, Interrogatives, Correlatives

9.Names - Family names, Patronymics

10.Derivational Morphology - Nominalization, Adjectivalization, Verbalization, Adverbialization, Loaning

11.Verbal Syntax - The Use of the Verb

12.Nominal Syntax - The Use of the Noun

13.Adjectival and Adverbial Syntax - The Use of the Adjective, Numbers, The Use of the Adverb

14.Topicalization - Topic Reference, Topic Change, Examples

15.Pronominal Syntax - The Use of the Pronoun

16.Prepositions - Use, Form, Case Governance

17.Clauses and Conjunctions - Coordinating Conjunctions, Subordinating Conjunctions, Reduplication

18.Questions - Interrogative Syntax, Echo Questions, Element Extraction

19.Reported Speech - Statements, Commands, Requests, Questions

20.Discourse Markers - Affirmation, Correction, Mood, Deixis

21.Emphasis and Word Order - Emphatic Particles, Word Order, Interaction with Topicalization

22.Spoken Novegradian - Reduction, Colloquial Language, New Formations

23.Dialects - Regional Varieties, Sound Correspondences, Foreign Influences

24.Historical Phonology and Morphology - Sound Changes, Grammar Changes

25.Appendices - Colors, Time and Date, Kinship, Punctuation, Common Slavic Morphology