The horse does not eat cucumber salad

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Re: The horse does not eat cucumber salad

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Written standard
Lo çhevà menjhe pà de salade de konkombro.

Moûtiers dialect transcription
Lo sh'và minzhe pà de salad' de konkombro.

[loθˈva ˈmɛ̃n.ðə ˈpa de.saˈlad de.kɔ̃ˈkɔ̃m.bʁə]
DEF-M horse eat-3S NEG PART salad-OBL of cucumber
The horse does not eat cucumber salad.

This is a lot more like French than the previous version. I think I went a little overboard with the negation in 2016. One thing I'd like to try again — and used in this update — is forming the partitive with only the oblique case. For a good while, the partitive could also take the nominative or accusative case, as appropriate for its grammatical role, and it could have any grammatical role. But this restriction to oblique will prevent partitive subjects, which could be neat.
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Re: The horse does not eat cucumber salad

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:con: Ärque

Aempuovuön apiurnċas axio.
[ˈae̯mpʷoβʷøn aˈpʲuɽɳʈʂas aˈχʲo]
ae-mpu-ovuö-n apiu-ornċa=s a-oxio
NEG-break.SG-mouth-FACT cucumber-salad=3.IPFV AGT-horse

"The horse does not eat cucumber salad."

Ärque displays syntactic but not phonological noun incorporation; a direct or oblique object can directly follow the verb, usually clause-initial, and come before the person/aspect enclitic, although not merging phonologically with the preceding word. This is used here as a marker of gnomic or habitual action; compare the alternative:

Aempuovuönis axio opiurnċa.
[ˈae̯mpʷoβʷønis aˈχʲo oˈpʲuɽɳʈʂa]
ae-mpu-ovuö-ni=s a-oxio o-apiu-ornċa
NEG-break.SG-mouth-FACT=3.IPFV AGT-horse OBL-cucumber-salad

"The horse is not eating cucumber salad."

This is not the only use of noun incorporation but it is the best.
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