Syntax
modal verbs negation, imperative and question general rules of phrase construction
emoted speech
The emoted speech is a very important issue in Nalheárlu, for it is a regularly used and common form of speaking. It can possess various emotional messages, such as anger, excitement, despair and so on. The way it differs from the regular, "inemoted" speech is that it changes the stress pattern of either separate words or the whole speech.
The stress is an important way of expression and accentation in Nalheárlu.
Thus, to make a phrase more expressive, it is the stress pattern that is
completely changed to achieve a new level of expressiveness. The exaples of
stress patterns may be the dactyl (`-
-) , amphibrach (-`-),
anaphest (- -`)
and peon 1-4 (`- -
-; -
Verbs in emoted speech have their own stressing rules when they are in a certain aspect form. When it is only the verb that is emphasized the aspect suffix becomes stressed and moves to the main verb. This way of expressing emotion is less "shouting" so to say and better just to underline the fact. Emoting the whole speech has sense when the speaker is wholly angry, desperate, anxious and so on.
kwreláihu duvíck ru-ghéne dw kwreláihu cko-pwrláick I didn't take your book and I haven't seen it (inemoted)
! k'w relaihú duvick ro-ghéne dw kwrélaihu ckó-pwrlaick ! I DIDN'T TAKE YOUR BOOK AND HAVEN''T SEEN IT! [pattern `- - -]
Because of all this, poetic craft is highly valued in Nalheárlu culture as an ability to arrange words into a rhythmic pattern WITHOUT using emoted speech of artificial pattern change. As the whole language culture is quite used to complicated rhythmic patterns, this aspect of poetry is highly developed.