The Grammatical States are: Common, Mental, Unreal, Passive, Poetic. Multiple states are often used at once.
The common state includes basic indicative speech in all tenses. It is particularily exemplified by the usage of the historic state and the -s verbal suffix.
The mental state is triggered whenever a verb of sensation or thought is used. The mental state often requires a specific syntax; the verb is followed by "er" or one of its forms. Mental verbs include:
The mental state commonly takes a present tense + gerund syntax or uses the facet pronoun's inner dative form.
The unreal state is triggered when the speaker wants to convey a subjective, irreal, or hyopthetical meaning. The unreal states often takes the word order VSO. This state uses the fronting of several categories of words, such as:
The unreal state likewise often demotes the indirect statement markers
Passive Forms (using contracted copula forms):
| narr | waad | indon | may mout | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| seely | 're | 's | 'lx be | 'd be |
| bac-seely | 's ben | 'd ben | 's/'us a'bein | 'lx'd ben |
| gwaan | 're a'fixin t'be | 're a'ben | 'lx be a'bein | 'd be a'bein |
| bac-gwaan | a'don ben a'bein | don ben a'bein | 'lx ben a'bein | 'd ben a'bein |
The poetic state is a mode of speech that gives certain words perferential treatment. This state is used in artistic and emotional context, vocally and in writing. Overall, while general speech is generally expected to use the narr-losom form a given word (though in practice might involve the common usage of several altitiude forms at once), the poetic state is more likely to use the waad-hisom form.
Another feature of the poetic state is that certain foreign loanwords are more likely to be used. The substratum include Cherokee, Scottish Gaelic, and Pennsylvania Dutch. Often, but not always, nouns of non-man-made objects come from Cherokee1, adjectives come from Scottish Gaelic, and adjectives come from Pennsynvania Dutch. Come common word sets are:
1 : often as the fore-noun in double nouns paired with its appalachian synonym
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