Proto-Drem grammar notes

Normally in Proto-Drem, the Tonal changes and vowel harmony cause havoc to the roots, and affixes, but here, this piece got very lucky, and we don't have to do squat with those 2 important areas..

Onto the word order. Think SOV/SVO, but with twists

• Normally: The tried and true standard, usually people stick to this.
  • Noun phrase - verb phrase - noun phrase. This is the formal style that is changing albeit slowly. See below.
• Rarely: usually seen with initial particles/conjunctions, etc.
  • Particle - NP - VP. As seen above in a few lines...
  • Styles will rarely mix. See the last line which is a combo Rare-Formal sentence. This done to make a complete thought. Usage is shown as Particle - NP - VP - NP as seen above.
• Literary style: More free flowing, considered "odd" but "tolerable"
  • NP - VP, NP, Particle - NP, as seen above in a few lines.

What gives with no verb?

Well...the verb gets a adverbal marker and then an additional gerund marker making the verb now... a noun!, and so plops quite nicely into a NP as an adjective.

[Pronoun]+[verb]+[Adv mkr]+[grnd]+[root]

MOST OF THE TIME... Gender/Pronoun/Tense then modifiers then roots

Special case of "OF"

Since the root is usually always last in a phrase, the word is [stuff]+[Aragon of]+[Duke] meaning "The Duke of Aragon" where the word the speaker is using as the direct object is Duke, so obviously Duke has more importance to the speaker than Aragon.

The "of" will always come after the modifier to the root.