Difference between revisions of "Okinawan and Miyako/Contrastive Grammar"

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There are three locatives in Okinawan and one in Miyako.
There are two allatives in Miyako and one in Okinawan.
There is an associative in Okinawan but not in Miyako.
Medial verbs appear frequently in Okinawan (indicating simultaneous or sequential verbs), but do not seem to appear in Ikema Miyako (though they do in Irabu).
It seems that pronouns (in particular, second person singular) are dropped more often in Miyako than in Okinawan.
When discussing when things happen (e.g. I went when I was 10), Miyako has a couple of examples that have a word meaning time, but Okinawan does not seem to have anything equivalent.
In Okinawan, progressive is expressed with a suffix on the verb. In Miyako, a converb plus the continuous expresses the same idea.
In Miyako, adjectives must either be nominalized or attached to the front of a noun. In Okinawan, either an adverbializer or a verbializer is added to an adjective stem, depending on whether it is to be negated or not.

(ryu) しぇんしぇいたあしいくん → (mvi) ならーすびーっみんかいいでぃい
(ryu) しぇんしぇいたあし<n><pl><all> いくん<v><npst><sf> → (mvi) ならーすびーっみんかい<n><pl><all> いでぃい<v><npst>

(ryu) ぴいじゃあやんんじゃん → (mvi) ひんじゃうどぅみーたい
(ryu) ぴいじゃあや<n><foc> んんじゃん<v><pst><sf> → (mvi) ひんじゃうどぅ <n><acc><foc> みーたい<v><pst>

(ryu) やあがかき → (mvi) かきる
(ryu) やあが<pprn><p2><sg><nom> かき<v><imp> → (mvi) かきる<v><imp>

(ryu) あっきんじゃん → (mvi) あいきーゆー
(ryu) あっくん<v><prog><sf> → (mvi) あいきー <v><cvb_abs> ゆー<vaux>

(ryu) うりやたかはん → (mvi) うらあたかだいむぬ
(ryu) うりや<pprn><p3><sg><top> たかはん<adj><vz><sf> → (mvi) うらあ<pprn><p3><sg><top1> たかだいむぬ<adj><nz>

(mvi) ならーすびーっみんかいいでぃい → (ryu) しぇんしぇいたあしいくん
(mvi) ならーすびーっみんかい<n><pl><all> いでぃい<v><npst> → (ryu) しぇんしぇいたあし<n><pl><all> いくん<v><npst><sf>

(mvi) ひんじゃうどぅみーたい → (ryu) ぴいじゃあやんんじゃん
(mvi) ひんじゃうどぅ <n><acc><foc> みーたい<v><pst> → (ryu) ぴいじゃあや<n><foc> んんじゃん<v><pst><sf>

(mvi) かきる → (ryu) やあがかき
(mvi) かきる<v><imp> → (ryu) やあが<pprn><p2><sg><nom> かき<v><imp>

(mvi) あいきーゆー → (ryu) あっきんじゃん
(mvi) あいきー <v><cvb_abs> ゆー<vaux> → (ryu) あっくん<v><prog><sf>

(mvi) うらあたかだいむぬ → (ryu) うりやたかはん
(mvi) うらあ<pprn><p3><sg><top1> たかだいむぬ<adj><nz> → (ryu) うりや<pprn><p3><sg><top> たかはん<adj><vz><sf>

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 *There are three locatives in Okinawan and one in Miyako.
 *There are two allatives in Miyako and one in Okinawan.
-*There is an accusative in Miyako but not in Okinawan.
 *There is an associative in Okinawan but not in Miyako.
 *Medial verbs appear frequently in Okinawan (indicating simultaneous or sequential verbs), but do not seem to appear in Ikema Miyako (though they do in Irabu).
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 *: {{transferMorphTest|ryu|mvi|しぇんしぇいたあし{{tag|n}}{{tag|pl}}{{tag|all}} いくん{{tag|v}}{{tag|npst}}{{tag|sf}}|ならーすびーっみんかい{{tag|n}}{{tag|pl}}{{tag|all}} いでぃい{{tag|v}}{{tag|npst}}}}
-* {{transferTest|ryu|mvi|ぴいじゃあや んんじゃん|ひんじゃうどぅ みーたい}}
+*There is an accusative in Miyako but not in Okinawan.
-*: {{transferMorphTest|ryu|mvi|ぴいじゃあや{{tag|n}}{{tag|foc}} んんじゃん{{tag|v}}{{tag|pst}}{{tag|sf}}|ひんじゃうどぅ {{tag|n}}{{tag|acc}}{{tag|foc}} みーたい{{tag|v}}{{tag|pst}}}}
+:* {{transferTest|ryu|mvi|ぴいじゃあや んんじゃん|ひんじゃうどぅ みーたい}}
+:*: {{transferMorphTest|ryu|mvi|ぴいじゃあや{{tag|n}}{{tag|foc}} んんじゃん{{tag|v}}{{tag|pst}}{{tag|sf}}|ひんじゃうどぅ {{tag|n}}{{tag|acc}}{{tag|foc}} みーたい{{tag|v}}{{tag|pst}}}}
 * {{transferTest|ryu|mvi|やあが かき|かきる}}