Grammar

Oglang grammar

Oglang grammar, in line with the goal of cultural neutrality, is based on mathematical set theory. All sentences can essentially be broken down into element-set or subset-superset relationship. For example, the sentence 'Apples are red.' means 'apples' are one of the many things that are 'red'. So we can write '{Apples}⊂{Red thing}' in the place of 'Apples are red'. LNS oglang translates each set theory symbols into unique classes, thus making its grammar universally understandable and acceptable. Each symbol is given a different relational class, from I to V. Since the basic classes have been described in detail in the Vocabulary section, here we will be main discussing about their usage in different situations.

Copula

Subject to intransitive verb relationship is probably the most important grammatical relation in LNS. There are two relationals that can show this relationship. Lets first look at the relational 'nin'.

Conjunction

Transitive verbs use the same 'nin' or 'non' relationals for linking different cases to the verb. However, there are a few suffixes and a new relational, 'nen', used to conjunct the two phrases.

Modifiers and negation

Modifiers are added by using 'nun'.

Complex modifiers and phrases

Word order

As demonstrated on the several example sentences above, there is no fixed word order between the different conjuncted phrases. However, the order is determined by the relational within each phrase.


Auxlang grammar

Although oglang grammar is not very difficult to understand, it is distinct from grammar in any other natural language. This can be a problem for using it as an auxiliary language, especially in long writings where literal translation can be crucial for speedy comprehension. For this purpose, it is possible to merge different relationals into one word, making it correspond to natlang equivalents. There are three different ways for doing so.

Analytic

Agglutinative

Fusional