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====Verbs==== | ====Verbs==== | ||
Active-stative, fluid-S. The verbal system is moderately complex inflecting for number, person, animacy, tense, and aspect. Furthermore, object, subject, and proximity is marked on the finite verb. | Active-stative, fluid-S. The verbal system is moderately complex inflecting for number, person, animacy, mood, epistemic modality, evidentiality, tense, and aspect. Furthermore, object, subject, and proximity is marked on the finite verb. The verbs can all be constructed from the appropriate verbal stem in combination with the relevant affixes. There are exceedingly few irregular verbs, somewhere around three to five depending on analyses. | ||
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It is most prudent to begin with the temporal facet of verb construction for the verb is ever marked with a suitable tense, of which we are allowed to choose two: present and non-present. | |||
===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||