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Ah ok. In English the "ing" ending does indicate a noun is in the progressive/continuous aspect, which are types of imperfective aspects but it also makes verbs nouns in what is called the "gerund" form. One can say "She likes frogs" with the same syntactic meaning as "She likes swimming". This diff...

I myself would expect emuh to be in the locative, so "emuhjir". "At the start". Your word list document is helpful but you should look up how to do glossing to make it less laborious for readers to see what your doing. You can have your line of text, the floating line, and a translation. "emhujir" N...

I will take a look when I can as it will be just as time intensive for me

Also yea basically. That is the dative, ablative, locative split as I propose it to you. In the context of the three being there that to me seems a plausible breakdown. Cases don't have universal meanings that every language strictly adheres to. Some languages have a dative only for indirect objects...

I definitely wouldn't call it random as there are functional benefits to having some nonconfiguratiinality. Like you can give prominence to different aspects of a sentence and avoid needing to develop some voices. The path you take is fine too though. Yeah a random generator can be a god send. You s...

You could use Sur with other cases no problem. Ablative is normally away from something so with Sur it might mean "off of". Dative is often towards something (though sometimes for all indirect objects) so with Sur it might mean onto. With locative it could mean on.

You could have case marking be a clitic and be on the end of noun phrases. This is how the English " 's " works. It basically is a clitic for the genitive case. Like "the queen of England's jewels" or "the man that I saw yesterday's book". It just means you have a bit less freedom in word order.

I feel your pain. I have been working on one myself but it is rather different from that one and less complete. Hopefully someone else has a copy of that one for you.

I look forward to future developments!

Thanks guys! That is really good to know. It is so wild that the past tense of some Russian verbs have a different inflectional pattern like that from the present tense. I want to inflect verbs by gender but wasn't sure if it is done a lot so I figured I would ask.

Does any language conjugate verbs for subject noun class?

I from Ontario and am used to them being used interchangeably so it can't just be a California thing. I have little doubt that distinction you understand was once more common.

If having an accusative case is weird there is no reason you can't just leave your agents, experiences and patients unmarked and let word order take care of things

Well, for pronouns you might want to have pronouns declined for each case and not necessarily just add -ke. Maybe it is hard to grasp quickly coming from English where we play fast and loose with our pronouns since word order and prepositions dominate the heavy semantic lifting instead of case. With...

Nachtuil, The problem is that I'm not making it expressively one word order and I'm using 2... OSV has the problem of (Noun Noun Verb). English we do "Him He Kills" in Eldrin it would be "He He Kill" or "Bob and Susan Bill Help" which is just confusing at times so by throwing in a indicator it solv...

I don know if you need to explicitly mark the indicative mood. You could probably leave it as an unmarked default. You should try doing some translation with the mood particles before committing to them. You may find it clunky to have to mark it explicitly every time. For instance, English has multi...

Mèþru is quite right. You could leave the infinitive unmarked, or even mark it differently. You could require that the finite verb might always come first in the sentence before the infinitive verb. You could also try "verb stacking" where you put a bunch of verbs consequitively where following verb...

I would totally be honoured if you used them. :) Yeah case marking is pretty different from how English does it. I would take a look at some languages that use them to get a better idea. They play different roles. You might choose for instance to use the ablative and dative cases into of the accusat...

Let me put together some examples of how cases can work. Case marking is usually a suffix that you stick on the end of a noun, though in some languages it is a prefix, though this is rarer. They basically fill a very similar role that that prepositions (or postpositions do) in showing the interrelat...

Accidentally posted twice.

Evidentially marking is something we don't have in English and we just indicate with adverbs like "allegedly" and such and phrasally, "it seems to me" etc. You certainly can get by doing it that way. In languages with evidentially they'll have a grammatical element like a clitic, affix or particle o...

I am glad you understand my pain :p I want to write more now. Sorry, I should have said about gender, even though English has pronouns based on the gender system from Germanic, you could have a lot of pronouns but no gender system anyway. Consider Thai which has a multitude of pronouns but no gramma...

Ugh okay, very quickly and of tragically reduced content. I don't know what site you are referring to but hopefully this is helpful: Gender: Gender is a form of noun class. Noun class agreement can be really useful in languages because language is imperfect so some redundancy is useful. About half t...

Holy god I just lost a post that took me so long to write that the system logged me out so I lost it! I am pretty peeved............
I can't even right now.

Seems promising so far. What kind of grammatical features are you looking to use?