Small Grammar Update

A 2020 Discord message by Hoemai announcing a grammar update for Toaq Beta. https://discord.com/channels/311223912044167168/311223912044167168/726562475012522096

In modern-as-of-2023 Toaq Delta, all adverbials are "low-attaching", and the old tones ^γ and ^γ have indeed been merged into ^δ.

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.

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 and , 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).

I also looked into the possibility of merging and 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).

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.