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| === Small Grammar Update (SGU) === | | === Small Grammar Update (SGU) === |
| | | See [[Small Grammar Update]]. |
| An often-quoted 2020 Discord message announcing a grammar update. https://discord.com/channels/311223912044167168/311223912044167168/726562475012522096
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| <blockquote>A small update on the grammar: I have decided to simplify adverbials. Together with my recent conclusion that Toaq does (or should) have a TP, this solves all the previously unsolvable problems.
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| What this means is that there will simply be two types of adverbs, depending on where they attach. For now, the low-attaching adverbials are those formed with :t6: and :t7: , while the high-attaching ones need a non-tonal head (ıq, for instance). Low adverbs have lower scope than quantifiers and they don’t scope over each other. High adverbs work like the old adverbs. The placement of all adverbials is also simplified so that low adverbs (x) must appear either right after the verb or after the arguments (V x SO x), while high adverbs (y) are sentence-final but can be moved to be prenex (y bı V S O y).
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| I also looked into the possibility of merging :t6: and :t7: so that one of them could be used for high adverbs instead, but this isn’t possible without introducing a terminator, as far as I can tell (let me know if you can think of another solution).
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| In any case, this would put the overall progress at 90+%, so I’m going with that instead of the frustrating-to-formalize (and hard-to-use) status quo.
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| </blockquote>
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| It has since been announced that there will be [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2021/08/08/miscellanea1/ no actual word like “ıq”], and maybe no high adverbs at all (instead you just serialize them into the main verb, or ''make'' them the main verb).
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| === Universe of discourse (UoD) === | | === Universe of discourse (UoD) === |
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| The set of things under discussion at a given time. Quantifiers range over this domain, so that '''tu poq''' doesn't necessarily mean "all of the people in the world". See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_of_discourse Wikipedia]. | | The set of things under discussion at a given time. Quantifiers range over this domain, so that '''tu poq''' doesn't necessarily mean "all of the people in the world". See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_of_discourse Wikipedia]. |