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whether they
appear pre- or
postverbally.
Preverbal pronouns serve as
subjects of a verb and are all monosyllabic.
Postverbal pronouns usually denote objects...
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consists of a
preverbal particle encoding tense, the predicate, and a
postverbal particle with a
function yet to be
fully investigated.
Daagare marks past...
- Rapa Nui is full of ways to
express this, be it
through locationals,
postverbal or
postnominal demonstratives, or directionals.
These four
classes that...
- „I will not say
goodbye to you.“
Postverbal particles in Buli
mainly express affirmation and negation. The
postverbal particle yā
expresses ****ertion and...
- other. The
postverbal morpheme liai and
linia are the
respective intransitive and
transitive suffixes indicating a
repeated action. The
postverbal morpheme...
- the
subject occurs in the
preverbal position the
subject is
demoted to
postverbal position and the
sentence order becomes VSO.
Peter (S) så (V)
Jytte (O):...
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pronoun forms:
independent pronouns,
preverbal subject partial ****ics,
postverbal subject pronouns,
object ****ics,
preposed possessive pronouns and attributive...
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maximal amount of pre- and
postverbal particles is also
strictly defined.
There can be at
maximum five
preverbal and two
postverbal particles within one clause...
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Topic Postverbal subject Postverbal object I àl(ì) -lɪ́ɪ̀ -ɟì you (sg.) (à)ŋɡó -ŋó -ŋɡó he, she, it ɲìnè -né ɲìnè, -né we χàtâŋ -ŋàa χàtâŋ you (pl.) χàtú...
- jeo ne dis. I NEG say 'I do not say' In
Stage II both a
preverbal and a
postverbal element are obligatory: je I ne NEG dis say pas. NEG (modern standard...
