The Vallés Constructed Language


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General Morphology `(Morfolosía Gengral)`

This uses the now standard version of the orthography.

This chapter gives an overview of Vallés morphology. It covers derivation, and regular changes that apply to both declension and conjugation as well as to derivation.

Common Morphological Considerations

Purely Orthographical Changes

There are occasions when -e or -i is added to a base ending in c or g without changing the consonant's pronunciation; in this case, c becomes qu and g becomes gu.

Other Orthographic Changes

These are the changes in pronunciation that are reflected in writing.

Changes In Accentuation

Changes in accent marks are in this section, because there are related tone changes, both when dropping the acute and when replacing a circumflex with a grave.

Mobile "E" `(É Movil)`

Mobile "E" is a term for an e that appears on a given word form in some circumstances, but not others, independent of inflection or derivation. There are 2 varieties:

initially before sp, st, sc, squ, or x when not preceded in the same phrase by a word ending in a vowel. It's always pronounced [I^X] here. This variety is pronounced but not written in citation forms.
finally after certain consonants and clusters when the next word in the same phrase begins with a consonant. The pronunciation varies from [I^X] to [e]. A word already ending in (silent) e replaces that with ĕ.

The application rules for the 2nd variety haven't been worked out yet.

Rounding of Final "A"

This refers to the replacement of a word-final a with ŏ. It occurs when the next word in the same phrase begins with a labialized (rounded) consonant, specifically, [k^W], [g^W], [N^W], and [w].

It might also occur when the next word begins with a consonant followed by [w], and even when the next word begins with a consonant followed by a rounded vowel ([8], [u], [o], or [O]).

Pronunciation Changes Not Reflected In Writing

These perhaps belong in the phonology chapter.

Liaison

Liaison (liadzón) occurs when a word ending in a consonant is followed by a word in the same phrase beginning with a vowel. The consonant is pronounced as if it were the start of the 2nd word, rather than the end of the 1st word. A consonant cluster is treated the same.

Vowel Sandhi

Vowel Sandhi occurs when a word ending in a vowel is followed by a word in the same phrase also beginning with a vowel, and the 2 vowels combine, being pronounced as a diphthong or a long vowel.

These rules haven't been worked out, either.

Derivational Affixes `(Derivadzóns)`

Derivations With Same Part of Speech

Diminutives

Augmentatives

The suffix -ona is used when the resulting word refers to a female person, and has feminine gender. Otherwise, the suffix -ón is used and the resulting word has masculine gender.

Pejoratives

Superlatives ???

This is covered in Adjectives. Possibly diminutives, augmentatives, and pejoratives should be covered in Nouns. This leaves verbal derivatives and denominative verbs.

Verbal Derivatives

These produce nouns or adjectives from verbs.

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Derived from the supine as follows:

-d becomes -dzón
-t becomes -tzón (-ceón in some cases)
-ss becomes -xón
-s becomes -jón

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Derived from the supine by adding -ura.

Denominative Verbs

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