Veyrathi - Grammar Audit

Purpose

This document records the status of the grammar audit after the system comparison of morphology, syntax, pragmatics, lexicon and examples. The focus now is on the rules packages that have already been collected; Structurally open core gaps no longer remain in the current state.

Core fixes already incorporated

1. Finite verb base form clarified

The unmarked finite verb form is now explicitly equated with the citation form on -a.
The old description "present = stem" was not compatible with the lexicon and examples.
Incorporated into 03_Morphologie.md.

2. Verbal complex ordered

The position of no, sa, han and kei is now described as a fixed preverbal slot.
kei is cleanly separated from left sentence connectors.
Incorporated into 03_Morphologie.md and 04_Syntax.md.

3. Zero items and local NPs regulated

The everyday zero article for weakly individuated or routinized speakers is now described.
Local noun phrases without their own prepositions are now documented as standard patterns.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md.

4. Object position made explicit

Object pronouns and free objects now have a documented basic position in the sentence.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md.

5. Relative clause rule sharpened

Relative clauses are now described as a gap strategy.
The old example that incorrectly suggested full subject resumption has been replaced.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md.

6. Pronominal practice clarified in groups

The neutral plural default sen is now differentiated from gendered plural references.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md.

7. Sample material cleaned up

A contradictory predicate sentence was traced back to the documented NP structure.
Incorporated into 08_Beispiele.md.

8. Content questions integrated

A closed interrogative sentence for person, thing, choice, place, time, reason, type and quantity is now established.
The position in the left field of focus and the restriction of in-situ questions to echo and follow-up questions are documented.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

9. Marked non-verbal predication closed

For nominal and adjectival predicates outside the unmarked present, fera is now specified as a supporting verb.
Negation, tense, resultative and irrealis can be systematically combined with non-verbal predicates.
Incorporated into 03_Morphologie.md, 04_Syntax.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

10. Adverb hierarchy regulated

Discourse, frequency, manner, place and time adverbials now have a documented default order.
The special position of degree particles in adjectives is explicitly separated from free sentence adverbials.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

11. Valence basic classes documented

The most common verb patterns are now described as basic classes for intransitives, transitives, locative verbs, transfer verbs and sentence complement verbs.
The special position of recipient pronouns in transfer verbs is also regulated.
Incorporated into 03_Morphologie.md, 04_Syntax.md and indirectly in the example material.

12. Extended relative clauses expanded

Possessor, location and instrument relativization are now assigned resumptive strategies.
The gap strategy remains as an unmarked standard for subject and object relative clauses.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

13. Prosodic focus patterns documented

Neutral main accent distribution, contrast focus, corrective accent, echo question and ritualized phrasing are now described.
The interface between preposition and prosodic weighting is thus made explicit.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

14. Single valence close to the lexicon withdrawn

The most common verbs now have direct valence references in the lexicon.
This means that basic patterns and typical connections per lemma can be read without resorting to the morphology or syntax part.
Incorporated into 06_Lexikon.md.### 15. Dialog particles integrated
A small canonical set of turn, hesitation, halt and doubt particles is now described.
Existing short forms such as vel, dari and shoi are anchored dialogically.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md, 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

16. Salutation package integrated

Vocative position, urgent salutation with thal, social proximity with saren, collective salutation with senar and several title salutations are now regulated.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md, 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

17. Fragment speech and repair regulated

One-word answers, focus fragments, self-repair and literary cancel marking with ... and -- are now documented.
Incorporated into 04_Syntax.md, 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

18. Scene package created as a stress test

Several short dialogue scenes in different social situations test market, gate, advice, intimate speech, farewell and workshop discussion.
Incorporated into 08_Beispiele.md.

19. Register of contacts, insult and affection lexis integrated

A separate layer for relaxed character voices, forms of conflict and intimate salutations is now documented.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

20. Enarian kinship and bonding logic integrated

The vocabulary now systematically separates biological contribution parenthood (janor) from everyday rearing (ravor) and explicitly depicts parent groups, brood siblings, household ties and rearing partnerships.
Non-romantic closeness is documented as the default in relationship lexicon; Care, oath, brood, and household bear the brunt of social intimacy.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

21. Life phase, upbringing and training logic integrated

The language now explicitly depicts neutral child reference before gender differentiation, formal recognition naming (meya-therath) and function-oriented learning paths (zhalath-kavar).
Rearing (ravor) and instruction (bazhalor) are documented as separate social roles; rare learners (isi-zhalor) carry additional protection and status marking.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

22. Media, entertainment and everyday culture logic integrated

The language now represents public listening formats, voice networks, narrative lectures, competitions and communal meals as its own everyday cultural fields.
Informal circulating messages (kethar-rathen) are separated from institutional announcements (thalor-rathen); Leisure appears primarily as a shared, group-open practice.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

23. Technology and local space logic integrated

The language now represents modern technology as an everyday system world of measurement, display, code, energy and control and anchors local space travel as an administrative-technical field.
Orbit (melyth-kavar), spaceport (moran-verun), spacecraft (moran-kovath) and launch (sortalath) are deliberately built from existing Veyrathi roots instead of overtly earthly leaning patterns.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.

24. Digital everyday communication and urban technology integrated

The language now maps personal devices, direct channels, short messages, access codes, city displays, control centers as well as energy, water and sensor networks as an everyday standard layer.
Digital communication is modeled as functional coordination, not as an automatically intimate sphere; Urban technology follows the already established Veyrathi logic of flow, control and access status.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md and 08_Beispiele.md.### 25. Craft, production and material logic integrated
The language now depicts wood, stone, metal, clay, fabric, rope, tools and workshop processes as a coherent, everyday production layer.
Material and tool lexicon follows a native interaction of material root, action verb, role formation and composition instead of loose import of single words.
Incorporated into 06_Lexikon.md and 12_Wurzelregister.md.

26. Household, clothing and posture logic integrated

The language now depicts wearable clothing items, storage and cooking objects, cleaning equipment, and quiet, low, and leaning postures as a standard everyday layer.
Household appears as an orderly practice of storing, covering, serving and cleaning; Clothing remains functional, layerable and described in terms of material.
Incorporated into 06_Lexikon.md and 12_Wurzelregister.md.

27. Security, administration and order logic integrated

The language now maps guard, alarm, permit, register, fee, freight, receipt, archive and patrol as a closed public organizational layer.
Administration and order appear as a graduated combination of access, proof, blocking, obligation and orderly movement instead of as a mere list of borrowed words.
Incorporated into 06_Lexikon.md and 12_Wurzelregister.md.

28. Abstract, evaluation and discourse logic integrated

Language now depicts trust, doubt, reason, habit, custom, risk, patience, urgency, assertion and comparison as productive fields of discourse and evaluation.
This means that everyday and more formal judgments, justifications and careful classifications can now be formulated much more densely within one's own lexicon.
Incorporated into 06_Lexikon.md and 12_Wurzelregister.md.

29. Synonymy, hyperonymy and homonymy logic integrated

The vocabulary is now explicitly described as a semantic network with register synonyms, generic terms and limited context-resolvable homonymy.
Everyday, technical and institutional language can thus form natural forms of competition and focused clarification from their own material without derailing the standard.
Incorporated into 05_Semantik_Pragmatik.md, 06_Lexikon.md, 08_Beispiele.md, 10_Zusammenfassung.md and 12_Wurzelregister.md.

Retracted expansion packages

Interrogative package

sher, shel, shelor, shem, shen, sheva, sheri, shemi
left focus field as default, in-situ only for echo/queries

Predication package

Zero copula in the affirmative unmarked present tense
fera as a marked supporting verb for negation, tense, resultative and irrealis

Adverb packet

documented default hierarchy for sentence adverbials
clear separation between free adverbials and degree particles close to predicates

Valence package

Basic pattern S-V, S-V-O, S-V-Lok, S-V-O-Lok, S-V-REC-THEME, S-V-dei-Satz, S-V-para-Satz
Special rule for recipient pronouns

Relative clause package

Gap strategy as a core rule
resumptive possessive and oblique strategies in marked cases

Kinship and Bonding Package

janor, ravor, janor-jorath, jankap-saren, ravath-saren, oryn-saren
Relationship lexicon is non-romantic by default; Care and household logic as core social semantics

Life Stages and Training Package

zhalor, bazhalor, zhalath-drun, zhalath-kavar, meya-therath, ishar-yavath
neutral child reference up to recognition naming; Training as a path to maturity and function instead of free individual choice

Media and everyday culture package

jemath, sovath, vayen-jorath, senar-melath, sarin-rathen, thalor-rathen, kethar-rathen
shared listening situations, narrative presentations and social pacesetters instead of private, romantic leisure time logic

Technology and Space Pack

batela, telor, sirath-werath, demath-werath, thavar-bulen, melyth-kavar, moran-kovath, moran-verun
modern technology as a native composition layer; Space travel locally-orbitally and infrastructurally instead of cosmologically charged10. Digital and urban technology package
vayen-davel, werath-vayen, sela-vayen, sirath-talen, vethor-niva, thavar-jorath, telor-jorath, talen-niva
digital communication as a coordination tool; City technology as a network, control and access system

Materials and Crafts Pack

soral, braken, lathen, talmen, brinen, silor, reven, rimen-tavar
Work and production lexis as native material, tool and roll families instead of loose inventory

Household, clothing and husbandry package

hedun, murel, rilen, talun, kushen, ravel, medun, vesun
Household and clothing as a functional layer of carrying, storing, cleaning and calm postures

Order and administration package

garath, siven, zhelen, marken, zanen, kavon, reken, rakan
public order as a coordinated field of guard, access, evidence, delivery and mobile supervision

Discourse and Abstract Pack

helen, zhamen, moten, rolen, halven, melven, veylen, tenen
Justification, reservation, evaluation and comparison are now anchored as their own productive standard layer

Semantic depth package

java/bazora, rora/vaekeva, sula/synzora, peta/dora, nimen, lirun, rathen, sen, vel
Register synonymy, generic terms and controlled ambiguity are now documented as part of the standard vocabulary

Optional fine-tuning

1. Register variants of dense syntax

Poetics, legal registers and ritual language could later receive their own rules for strong prefixes, omissions and close chains of subordinate clauses.

2. Regional and generational variants

If individual groups are to be differentiated even more clearly, dialect colors, age registers and milieu-specific short forms would next make sense.

Work judgment

The grammar is now closed as a core system: verbal complex, non-verbal predication, interrogative system, adverb position, basic valence, prosodic focus control, dialogue particles, salutation, fragmented speech, extended relativization as well as enary-influenced kinship, life phase, training, everyday culture, technology, urban communication, material, household, order, discourse and deep semantics are intertwined and are based on morphology, Syntax, pragmatics, lexicon and examples are consistently documented. From here on, further expansion is fine work, not structural repair.