I need to also work out the grammar and syntax in advance. Here are the ideas.
PIE-esque Word Order: SOV
PS-esque Word Order: VSO
PIE-esque Syntax: adjectives before nouns, prepositions
PS-esque Syntax: adjectives are derived from both nouns and verbs with limited use, prepositions
PIE-esque Gender: masculine and feminine(and maybe neuter?), or common and neuter
PS-esque Gender: masculine and feminine
PIE-esque Number: singular, dual, and plural
PS-esque Number: singular, dual, and plural
PIE-esque Tenses: past and non-past(present)
PS-esque Tenses: past(imperfect) and non-past(present)
PIE-esque Aspects: imperfective("present"), perfective("aorist"), and stative("perfect")
PS-esque Aspects: ???
PIE-esque Moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and optative
PS-esque Moods: imperative
PIE-esque Passive: none
PS-esque Passive: unknown
PIE-esque Causative: none
PS-esque Causative: prefix
Can't find anything on the original PIE and Proto-Semitic about reconstructed valency-changing operations.
PIE-esque Copula: prefix meaning "(to) be"
PS-esque Copula: none
PIE-esque Noun Cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental, ablative, locative, and vocative(and maybe allative?)
PS-esque Noun Cases: nominative, accusative, and genitive
PIE-esque Articles: none
PS-esque Articles: none
PIE-esque Demonstratives: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Proto-Indo-European_pronouns#Demonstrative_pronouns
PS-esque Demonstratives: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Proto-Semitic_language#Pronouns
PIE-esque Persons: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
PS-esque Persons: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
PIE-esque Clusivity: none
PS-esque Clusivity: none
With this information, there could be a lot of speculation about the proto-grammar that these two sets could be the evolved forms of. Either the protolang possessed a copula that the Proto-Semitic-inspired one lost, or it never did and the PIE-inspired one evolved it. Though I wonder what else reconstructions of PIE and Proto-Semitic had that I could modify for these spin-off versions. And I would also know what those grammatical features would've evolved from if they were found in other languages.
What do you think?
Now for those other three languages.
Seri-esque Word Order: SOV
Osage-esque Word Order: SOV
Ewe-esque Word Order: SVO
Seri-esque Syntax: adjectives derived from verbs, postpositions
Osage-esque Syntax: adjectives after nouns, postpositions
Ewe-esque Syntax: adjectives after nouns, postpositions
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