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This slot contains deictic markers indicating where an event took place in relation to the speech participants. Some affixes can be traced to the independent deictic particles, e.g. ''-ssaha-'' < ''sappu'' "here", ''-yašša-'' < ''wašia'' "yon".  This slot is <u>not</u> found in the Gull, Salmonic and Horse Speaker dialects, nor in Classical Minhast.  Instead, they occur after the verb root, in the Terminatives slot.  It is unclear whether the locational affixes in those dialects are older than the ones in Modern Standard Minhast and the other dialects.  On the one hand, some of the Preverb 2 affixes have no obvious relationship with their independent particle counterparts, e.g. ''-xitta-'' "there" vs. ''naš'', which would suggest the Preverb 2 variants are older, whereas their counterparts in the Terminatives slot are etymologically transparently related to the extant independent particle variants.  However, it is generally agreed the Terminatives slot is older, as its affixes follow a strict templatic order, whereas the affixes in the other slots between the scalar operators (Slot 1) and applicative affixes (Slot 5) are scope ordered and their affixes apparently derived through earlier noun incorporation processes.