User:The&System/Minatoaq

This set of ideas for a possible Toaq Epsilon is a mixture of Loekia's ideas for what a Toaq Epsilon might look like. I like to see it more as a collection of good ideas than as a proposal per se.

Ideals

I believe one of the most important promises of Delta was stability. Delta also came with some design decisions that the community eventually found too cumbersome to work with. There are currently multiple simultaneous experimental versions of Toaq. I am trying to find a middle ground between their solutions to the problems we've found and a design similar to Toaq Delta.

Ideally, once a learner encounters a new feature from Minatoaq, it should be easy to come up with a simple answer that will make it so they never need to ask the question again.

Tones

Minatoaq has the same tones as Toaq Delta.

Borrows from Eatoaq

Minatoaq directly borrows the following parts of Eatoaq:

- Underfilling: Underfilling is disallowed. Nouns must be object-incorporated. - Serials: Words that form serials with their subject must form serials when used as nouns. - Objects: The verbal complex incorporates objects with the hiatus tone, nouns incorporate them with the falling tone. - Adjuncts: Fronted adjuncts are written in the falling tone and with object incorporation.

Adjectives are always treated as subject sharing. If one wants to use them as adverbials, a relative clause is best used.

sá suaq de A singer who is beautiful.

sá ꝡë suaq dê hóa Someone who sings beautifully.

Closing Clauses

Minatoaq borrows the clause closer na from Koamtoaq. The issues with this behavior will be explained below, but it is a suitable solution for the several problems with clause boundaries.

TODO: continue this once i've thought more about - adjuncts - names - ajectives - connectives