Talk:Proto-Bakarh

Non concantenative verb slots
As I've noticed your fondness for complex verbal systems, perhaps you could be challeneged to try a conlang where the verbs are polysynthetic yet Cannot be divided into slots. (It seems to me that the most popular way to do it among american languages is to rearrange the slot system for every tense.) Like in Navajo, the subject prefixes change depending on tense and a couple like the 4th person are in the wrong slot, or in ojibwe, where the subject prefixes are fused into the directive suffixes in conjunct forms, along with the TAM marker going in a completely different spot.

Or you could have irregular slot orders here and there, also seen that done

Greatbuddha (talk) 00:56, July 7, 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, you're right - the rigid template I've used here does look unnatural to some extent; I seem to have forgotten that this is supposed to be a natural language, despite being a proto-language. You've also given me a good idea as to how to spice up the system and make it more plausible, so thanks for that :D I think I'll go with moving the secondary agreement to (+5) whenever a segment of it is negated, plus having that segment be moved to (+5#C) if it's unique in being negated. 10:32, July 7, 2013 (UTC) ~) The Elector, Darkness Immaculate