Tasratal grammar notes

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Tasratal is agglutinating, with default SOV word order, and makes extensive use of particles (connectives) that indicate grammatical categories.  It is primarily noun (substantive)-based, and the typical pattern is: X (agent) Y (object) Z (action, or "verb"--that which is caused).

Subclauses generally occur thus: X (speaker/agent) x (topic/agent being talked about) y (object being talked about) z (action/verb being talked about) Y (listener/object) Z (action/verb)

Even such "verbs" generally have no tense as such, though they can be marked as progressive, hypothetical, or certain (mood/aspect).

Substantives (nouns) occur in semantically-derived "triads."  Since they're not necessarily predictable in meaning, I've just given specific forms (which is why you see so many a(l)-, i(l)- or y(l)- prefixes) with the exception of a few "general" forms that occur in the text.

Marking of number is optional even with pronouns.

Connectives (particles/suffixes) are the workhorses. While substantives can be used connectively, the only instance in this text is the relatively common -asram, specifying that the noun is a person of some type, e.g. tasu-asram or "attack person" could be read as "soldier" or "attacker."