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Tarkandamonian exhibits strict SOV order, and modifiers to heads also display strict ordering: adverbs precede the adjectives and verbs they modify, the positive polarity particle ''vor'' always appears as the initial element of a clause, while its counterpart, the negative polarity pseudo-verb ''-la-'', follows the subject in intransitive clauses, and between the subject and object clausal arguments. Any oblique arguments, including the indirect object, always occurs after the direct object in transitive verbs, and after the pseudo-verb ''-la-'', if expressed in intransitive clauses. The interrogative particle ''tunima'' obligatorily appears immediately before the verb; it is the only particle that may appear between the verb and any of its adverbial modifiers. | |||
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