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Arusian classifies words in a different way from European languages and it has fewer categories. Prepositions, adjectives, and conjunctions don't really exist in Arusian and their roles might be replaced by co-verbs or intransitive verbs. In this post we will show you two different views on Arusian word classes according to their morphosyntactic behavior in sentences.

This post aims to investigate how word order in Arusian, which is considerably freer than English, affects formality and characterises colloquial and formal registers.

INTRANSITIVE VERBS​

Arusian distinguishes transitivity and voice in verbs morphologically.

Intransitive verbs are characterised by the morphemes -a and -ei (depending on the voice). Later, we will see that they often function as nouns, and not as verbs. We will explain why this happens.