Conlang/Intermediate/History/Grammar changes
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This page may need to be Grammar changes are when a part of the grammar of a language changes over time, so that the language now has a different way of accomplishing the same thing. For example, when French evolved from Latin it did not have a fixed word order, while it now does; much information that in Latin was conveyed by use of case, is conveyed by word order in modern French.
- parva mensa rufa non est.
- la petite table n'est pas rouge.
- the little table isn't red.
Grammar changes may take place in a variety of ways:
- Sound changes
| Latin | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aqua, -ae water f. |
agricola, -ae farmer m. |
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| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |||||
| Nominative | aqua | –a | aquae | –ae | agricola | –a | agricolae | –ae |
| Genitive | aquae | –ae | aquārum | –ārum | agricolae | –ae | agricolārum | –ārum |
| Dative | aquae | –ae | aquīs | –īs | agricolae | –ae | agricolīs | –īs |
| Accusative | aquam | –am | aquās | –ās | agricolam | –am | agricolās | –ās |
| Vocative | aqua | –a | aquae | –ae | agricola | –a | agricolae | –ae |
| Ablative | aquā | –ā | aquīs | –īs | agricolā | –ā | agricolīs | –īs |
| Locative | aquae | -ae | aquīs | –īs | agricolae | -ae | agricolīs | –īs |
