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-'''Antipassive''' construction: Agent (ERG) transforms into subject (ABS) and object (ABS) takes the instrumental-comitative (INS) case. Word order becomes SV(O), and the verb is conjugated according to the agent and is suffixed with the emphasizing clitic ''ma'' in the formal register.
+'''Antipassive''' construction: Agent (ERG) transforms into subject (ABS) and object (ABS) takes the instrumental-comitative (INS) case. Word order becomes SV(O), and the verb is conjugated according to the agent only and the stressed syllable undergoes second [[Sceptrian#Apophony|apophony]]. The verb is also suffixed with the emphasizing clitic ''ma'' in the formal register.
 {{Gloss
-|phrase = Doth ónzait(ma) (pofos).
+|phrase = Doth ónzeit(ma) (pofos).
-|IPA = /dəθ ɔ̃zaɪ̯t(mä) (pəfəs)/
+|IPA = /dəθ ɔ̃zei̯t(mä) (pəfəs)/
-| morphemes = doth-Ø ón-zait-Ø(/ma) (pof-os)
+| morphemes = doth-Ø ón-zeit-Ø(/ma) (pof-os)
-| gloss = man-ABS 3SG.AN.PRES.IPFV-lift-ANTIP(.FORM) (feather-INS)
+| gloss = man-ABS ANTIP\3SG.AN.PRES.IPFV-lift-ANTIP(.FORM) (feather-INS)
 | translation = The man is lifting (a feather).
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 **''Ónzaiton pof vakuhp dothir.'' (the feather is raised by the man's hand)
 **''Onzaiton pof tuph dothi'''sh''' slokli.'' (The feather is being lifted with a man's stick for them.) Inanimate agent conjugation, and dative of possession is inflected to avoid misinterpretation!
-* ''Vakuh ónzait pofos.'' (The hand lifts something, which happens to be a feather)/(someone intentionally lifts a feather with their hand) Notice animate conjugation!
+* ''Vakuh ónzeit pofos.'' (The hand lifts something, which happens to be a feather)/(someone intentionally lifts a feather with their hand) Notice animate conjugation!
-**''Tup onzait dothpo pofos.'' (The stick, which is being held by a man, lifts something, which happens to be a feather) ABL as causative since inanimate ''tup''.
+**''Tup onzeit dothpo pofos.'' (The stick, which is being held by a man, lifts something, which happens to be a feather) ABL as causative since inanimate ''tup''.
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