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| − | The basic noun phrase is ''[[adjective|non-modifying adjective]]'' noun ''modifying adjective''. | + | The basic noun phrase is ''[[adjective|non-modifying adjective]]'' noun ''modifying adjective''. Lists of adjectives are only permitted when listed in a relative clause. A complete noun phrase may consist of sub-clauses, relative clauses, or just a basic noun phrase. |
== Verb phrases == | == Verb phrases == | ||
Revision as of 17:44, 23 March 2013
Word order relates to how words are placed within a sentence, and in which order words are placed within substructures of sentences.
Sentences
In most cases the words of a sentence can be placed in any order, yet the lack of case markings for subject vs object creates a few impossibilities when translating into Delang.
- Inanimate object cannot be agent of a sentence.
A work around exist for this problem, as pronouns may be agent, even if relating to an inanimate object. For example, if you should want to translate the rather bizarre idea that a book, an inanimate object, could read a person, Alfonz, 'the book' would have to be put in a separate relative clause from the rest of the sentence:
| The book, it reads Alfonz Δеліберін, ані сіті Алƒҩнс[1] |
- If no case marking[2] are used, direct objects has to be distinguished from indirect object, or vice versa, by a preposition.
There is no work around for this issue in Delang. Unlike English, you just cannot distinguish between indirect and direct object, just by their word order.
Noun phrases
The basic noun phrase is non-modifying adjective noun modifying adjective. Lists of adjectives are only permitted when listed in a relative clause. A complete noun phrase may consist of sub-clauses, relative clauses, or just a basic noun phrase.
