Proto-Grelerian

Classification and Dialects
Proto-Grelerian is influenced by the Proto-Indo-European Morphology and by some features of Bahasa Indonesia.

Nouns
Proto-Grelerian nouns are declined for nine cases:


 * nominative: marks the subject of a verb, such as They in They ate. Words that follow a linking verb and rename the subject of that verb also use the nominative case. Thus, both They and linguists are in the nominative case in They are linguists. The nominative is the dictionary form of the noun.
 * accusative: used for the direct object of a transitive verb.
 * genitive: marks a noun as modifying another noun.
 * dative: used to indicate the indirect object of a transitive verb, such as Jacob in Maria gave Jacob a drink.
 * instrumental: marks the instrument or means by, or with, which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action. It may be either a physical object or an abstract concept.
 * ablative: used to express motion away from something.
 * locative: corresponds vaguely to the English prepositions in, on, at, and by.
 * vocative: used for a word that identifies an addressee. A vocative expression is one of direct address where the identity of the party spoken to is set forth expressly within a sentence. For example, in the sentence, "I don't know, John", John is a vocative expression that indicates the party being addressed.
 * allative: used as a type of locative case that expresses movement towards something.

All nominals don’t have numbers but distinguish between definiteness, indefiniteness and genericness. However there are numerals. Here are determiners with head-marking below and again below for case marking only for nouns.. -

Accusative marking on noun tends to disappear.

Verbs
The dictionnary form of a verb is its infinite form and they all ends by -am until conjugations occur. the -am ending of a verb, infinite form, would also be used for its noun version.

Mood particles & Negation
Mood particles are before the verb as a particle. There wouldn't be subjunctive, it would be the relative/subjunctives clause(s) particle(s) instead.

Pronouns
Proto-Grelerian have personal pronouns for first and second, but not for third person, where demonstrative determiners are used instead. The suffix -(n)e on the personnal pronoun is used for reflexive or to emphasis itself (the personal pronoun: subject), so, used as polite form.

Determiners
There is no articles, because nouns does inflect with definiteness and cases, etc. See Nouns.

Demonstrative determiners are: They come after the noun like Bahasa Indonesia.

To make a possessive determiner / possessive pronoun, we add the suffix -(u)so on the nominative personal pronoun / demonstrative pronoun. The possessive determiner / possessive pronoun is also put after the noun.

Adjectives
Adjective are put before the noun.

Syntax

 * strict SVO order for declarative sentence
 * VSO for verb emphasis
 * adjectives before nouns
 * head noun before genitive
 * postpositions rather than prepositions
 * dominant order in comparative constructions
 * main clauses before relative clauses
 * head-direction: head-initial

Lexicon
The link to the full up-to-date lexicon: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-Zq-tYu2JrLBji2EDzlDqIoa2P7Y0OOwB_dDb6aOZzo/edit?usp=sharing

Example text
Joanna likes apples = Jania kem dapleti