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=== Verb Template === | === Verb Template === | ||
The Minhast verb is divided into three major segments: the Preverb, the Verb Core, and the Terminatives. Each of these segments are divided into smaller sections or "slots", as they are termed in Minhastic linguistic literature. | The Minhast verb is divided into three major segments: the Preverb, the Verb Core, and the Terminatives. Each of these segments are divided into smaller sections or "slots", as they are termed in Minhastic linguistic literature. | ||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | |||
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! colspan="8" |Preverb | |||
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| Scalar Operators | |||
| Locationals | |||
| colspan="3" style="text-align:center" | Mood-Aspect-Manner | |||
| Control | |||
| Applicatives | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
! colspan="8" |Verb Core | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
| Verb Root | |||
| Incorporated Noun | |||
| Prepronominals | |||
| colspan="2" | Pronominals | |||
| Tense-Aspect | |||
| Transitivity | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="8" | Terminatives | |||
|- | |||
! | |||
| Evidentials | |||
| Miratives | |||
| Deictics | |||
| Imperative | |||
| Subordinators | |||
| Irrealis | |||
| Nominalizer | |||
|} | |||
==== Preverb 1 Scalar Operator Affixes ==== | ==== Preverb 1 Scalar Operator Affixes ==== | ||
The positions of these affixes in relation to each other is fixed, | The positions of these affixes in relation to each other is fixed, and are mutually exclusive, with the exception of the negation affixes. The negator ''ta-'' can be attached to all of the scalar operators with the exception of the Cautionary and Negative Cautionary affixes. The affixes in the Preverb 1 slot have wide scope at the ''clausal'' level. The forms ''tara-, tarra-, tabbina-'' are the Absolute Negation prefixes; ''tabbina-'' is quite rare and found only in some Classical Minhast texts, probably derived from ''hatā' hambin''. | ||