I think the voice slot could be a prefix preceding incorporation.Omzinesý wrote: ↑16 Nov 2021 14:00 Verb morphology
I'm stealing quite much from Karu (my older project) verb. The exact content of the slot 2 is still unclear. How many voices does the language need.
The preliminary verb template is:
-1[incorporation] 0[stem], 1[inceptive, cessiative, causative] 2[reciprocal, reflexive, autobenefactive, applicative] 3[passive, perfect], 4[mood, agreement], 5[volitionality, resultative, negation]
The slot 5 is copied from Karu (some sounds are changed). It combines markers of volitionality, resultativity (aspect), and negation. The slot is "not obligatory", that is, the values can be unmarked. Negation must, however, have a stance on volitionality (if you reject doing something or cannot do something).
-Ø - unmarked
ne - Volitional
ši - Nonvolitional
se - Resultative
wa - Irresultative
la - Volitional negative ('reject')
me - Nonvolitional negative ('cannot')
Perfect could be periphrastic as above.
The verb pattern could look like this:
-2[reciprocal, reflexive, autobenefactive, applicative, passive]
-1[incorporation]
0[stem]
1[inceptive, cessiative, causative]
2[mood, agreement]
3[volitionality, resultative, negation]
One of my favourite categories is "epistemic categories"
- Probably, maybe
- Mirative
- evidentiality
- Egopphoricity
It could appear between 2 and 3.
Edit:
Or probably I could add those epistemic categories to the mood/agreement slot.