A descriptive marker is a grammatic

Grammar

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 feature of certain languages. It is defined linguistically

Linguistics

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 as a free morpheme

Morpheme

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 that indicates the grammatical function marking description.

Function

The descriptive marker generally signals the beginning of a descriptive (or modifying) phrase.

The marker assumes descriptive characteristics from the modifier, such as:

• Adjectival
  Adjective
  In grammar, an adjective is a 'describing' word; the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified....
  
   or Adverb
  Adverb
  An adverb is a part of speech that modifies verbs or any part of speech other than a noun . Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives , clauses, sentences, and other adverbs....
  
  ial Differentiation
• Intensity
• Agreement (case
  Grammatical case
  In grammar, the case of a noun or pronoun is an inflectional form that indicates its grammatical function in a phrase, clause, or sentence. For example, a pronoun may play the role of subject , of direct object , or of possessor...
  
  , gender
  Grammatical gender
  Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...
  
  , number
  Grammatical number
  In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, and adjective and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions ....
  
  )

Usage

• The Descriptive Marker is an important feature of the Indo-European language
  Indo-European languages
  The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia and also historically predominant in Anatolia...
  
   Toytonic. It is also found in other synthetic language
  Synthetic language
  In linguistic typology, a synthetic language is a language with a high morpheme-per-word ratio, as opposed to a low morpheme-per-word ratio in what is described as an isolating language...
  
  s.
• In Toytonic, the descriptive marker is a key component of the descriptive phrase and determines what the phrase will modify and to what intensity.

Descriptive markers in Toytonic

Marker		Intensity
ʟaг		'least'
ʟuг		'less'
ʟiг
ʟeг		'more'
ʟoг		'most'