For more information on IEML grammar, see here
Syntactic marks
Cause (role)
- E:M:.d.+M:O:.- (causes, determinations)
Time (role)
- E:S:+B:M:. Distribution in time / frequency
- E:M:.-O:.-t.o.-‘ past, present, future (relative or absolute)
- E:.O:O:.O:.-t.o.-‘ before, after, until, at the moment, during…
Place (role)
- E:T:M:. nowhere, everywhere, somewhere
- E:.-O:.M:M:.-l.-‘ Places and movements according to an axial orientation (vertical/horizontal).
- E:.-M:.M:M:.-l.-‘ places and movements according to a path orientation.
Intention (role)
- E:.-‘h.o.d.-U:.-‘M:O:.-‘, intentional auxiliaries: purpose, reference, motivation, etc.
- E:.M:O:.O:M:.- pragmatic auxiliaries: relations between games, rules, roles, players, matches and moves in symbolic games.
Manner (role)
- E:O:M:. quantity / quality comparison
- E:.A:.O:M:.- six possessive auxiliaries
- E:.O:.M:O:.- without, with, pro, anti, etc.
- E:U:S:+T:.-M:M:.o.-‘ Ennead modes.
Junctions
- E:M:.-k.u.-’ logical connectors : and, or…
- E:.-O:O:.-k.u.-’ causal junctions : therefore, because…
- E:.-O:M:.-k.u.-‘ the junctions for placing an item in a list. Relation item-list: best, worst, minimum, maximum, etc.
- E:.-M:M:.u.-k.u.-‘ antinomies, contrasts and explanations: but, however, on the other hand…
- E:.-M:M:.a.-k.u.-‘ comparisons: less than, more than, equal to, similar to, different from…
- E:.-S:.m.-l.-‘O:O:.-‘k.u.-‘ path and order junctions: whole-part path, step order, priority order, temporal order.
Verbal inflections
- E:O:O:. affirmation, negation, citation, interrogation
- E:M:O:. probability, condition, authority, experience
- E:.b.O:O:.- to be, to become, to cause to be, to feel, to appear
- E:.b.O:M:.- to know, to want, to be able, to let know, to commit, to do / to leave
- E:.-O:O:.-t.o.-‘ voice: active, passive, reflexive, reciprocal
- E:F:.-t.o.-‘ aspect: finished, usual, beginning, middle, end
- E:.-‘O:O:.-M:.-‘t.o.-‘, verbal modes: indicative, imperative, optative, deontic, subjunctive, infinitive, gerund, participle, etc.
Nominal inflection
- E:.O:O:.- nombre: un, deux, trois, plusieurs
- E:I:.-t.u.-‘ qualitative number: how many, nothing, all, etc.
- E:M:.-d.u.-‘ défini, indéfini, démonstratif
- E:S:.j.-‘M:O:.-O:.-‘, groupings: one by one, two by two, etc. up to twelve.
- E:.-‘,b.-S:.U:.-‘y.-‘O:.-‘,_ continuous / discontinuous
- E:.-n.E:U:.+F:.-‘ genders: immaterial, masculine, feminine, human, living, inanimate
