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Contemporary Imperial

Grammar

Basic word order is verb-subject-object.

Nouns

Nouns do not have case, and their grammatical roles are expressed largely through word order. Likewise, they have no grammatical gender or noun classes.

They are also not marked for number; there are no separate forms for singular or plural nouns. In many cases, the number of a noun is implied through context, but when clarification is required, quantifiers can be used: one, ten, a few, many, all, no. Any such quantifiers must be used alongside a noun classifier, of which there are a great many, and the choice of which depends on the properties of the referent of the noun. Measure words may be used in much the same way as, and as a replacement for, classifiers.

Verbs

Verbs include suffixes to indicate the evidentiality or epistemic modality of a statement, which are treated separately.

The categories of evidentiality are:

The categories of epistemic modality are:

Vocabulary

See also Vocabulary.