Eatoaq

From The Toaq Wiki

Eatoaq is a semi-hypothetical version of Toaq by User:Loekıa that builds on Toaq Delta and the ideas of the Clause Reform proposal.

Quoting the blog post it was defined in, it has the following features:

  • Sentences and fragments segment themselves
  • Any small word can withstand lack of stress
  • Nullary verbs and trailing adjuncts still exist
  • Conjunctions work by general principles, with sensible, emergent defaults
  • Discursives and adverbs of quantification become recognized parts of speech
  • Generics and variables have clearly defined roles
  • Donkey sentences can be expressed without paraphrase
  • Mechanical parsers can understand entire discourses
  • Rigid, linear scope is balanced by appropriately flexible word order
  • And critically, every part of the grammar is most naturally defined in linguistic terms without any mention of parsing strategies.

Eatoaq has only three tones: broadly speaking, glottal tone and hiatus tone are merged. If you see someone say or , or object incorporation using the falling tone e.g. baq, they are probably speaking Eatoaq.

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