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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...
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pronoun forms:
independent pronouns,
preverbal subject partial ****ics,
postverbal subject pronouns,
object ****ics,
preposed possessive pronouns and attributive...
- Rapa Nui is full of ways to
express this, be it
through locationals,
postverbal or
postnominal demonstratives, or directionals.
These four
classes that...
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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...
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person preverbal postverbal after vowel or
consonant after /u/, /i/
after consonant after /a/ 1Sg -\hi -\ha-hi -\a-hi -\ø-hi 1Pl -\hə-næɣ -\ha-næɣ -\a-næɣ...
- „I will not say
goodbye to you.“
Postverbal particles in Buli
mainly express affirmation and negation. The
postverbal particle yā
expresses ****ertion and...
- for 1st
person plural inclusive, an
epenthetic -a- is inserted. The
postverbal portion is -ri for
bases ending in -i, and -i for all others. However...
- 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):...
- play the role of
dummy predicate rather than
dummy subject, so that the
postverbal noun
phrase would rather be the
embedded subject of the sentence.[citation...
