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Indirect objects, oblique objects and comparatives' objects cannot be relativized. <br> | Indirect objects, oblique objects and comparatives' objects cannot be relativized. <br> | ||
An ergative can be promoted (passivized) to an absolutive through an antipassive (suffix -(i)si) before the person-number-mood suffix. <br> | An ergative can be promoted (passivized) to an absolutive through an antipassive (suffix -(i)si) before the person-number-mood suffix. <br> | ||
Titles come before nouns, and geographic names, after the noun that characterizes it e.g. Iluuhuusaji Muppak (North Sea). | Titles come before nouns, and geographic names, after the noun that characterizes it e.g. Iluuhuusaji Muppak (North Sea). <br> | ||
The verb ''to be'' is always conjugated in the dual or plural after a mathematical operation that results in 2 or more. | |||
===Constituent order=== | ===Constituent order=== | ||
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===Dependent clauses=== | ===Dependent clauses=== | ||
Usually, relative sentences come after the main sentence. <br> | |||
===Some other valid transformations=== | ===Some other valid transformations=== | ||