Matlang, Day 7

Hey y'all, it's back to Matlang.

In our continuing saga, I will start to outline my vision of Matlang grammar.

In English, the essence of the clause is in the verb. Look at the sentence now the whole world had one language and a common speech. The essence is in the verb, have. Everything else describes in detail that action of ownership. Who had, what was had? Everything else is an argument to the verb. I think, with my limited linguistic knowledge, that most languages are that way.

In Matlang, our goal was to create a language based off of principles of Material Logic. The fundamental concept of Material Logic is, in fact, concepts. There is also the principle of substance and accident: Substances are the essential, unchangeable, defining characteristics of a being, while accidents are things applying to it that are unessential and changeable. In other words, heads and modifiers.

But the substances are all nouns.

Therefore, we must in Matlang have clauses be based off of the noun. In the aforementioned sentence, it is the world which is the basis of the sentence.

Let's form a structure of the same sentence in Verb-based and Matlang terms:

Verb-Based
have{world
     -the
     -whole
     |{and|language
           -one
          |speech
           -a
           -common
-past
Matlang
world
-the
-whole
-have{{and|language
           -one
           -past
          |speech
           -a
           -common
           -past
-past


I'd like it to have a somewhat head-initial syntax, like world whole have language one speech common.

And for our first five words, they will be nouns:

1. Sōcrāt-, Socrates (duh)
2. pater-, father, ancestor
3. mater-, mother, origin
4. phrāter-, brother, friend (informal)
5. adelph-, brother, monk (formal)