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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Guimin has 22 light verbs from which all others are derived. They inflect for tense, aspect, mood, voice, patient number and gender, and other optional categories. | |||
===Adjectives | {| class="wikitable" | ||
|+ "to do" | |||
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! colspan="3" rowspan="2"| !! colspan="2" | {{gcl|M}} !! colspan="2" | {{gcl|F}} !! colspan="2" | {{gcl|N}} | |||
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! {{gcl|SG}} !! {{gcl|PL}} !! {{gcl|SG}} !! {{gcl|PL}} !! {{gcl|SG}} !! {{gcl|PL}} | |||
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Verbs are most often derived by pairing a light verb with either a following adjective or a preceding absolutive noun. When an absolutive noun is part of a complex verb, the clause's patient is instead marked as dative. | |||
===Adjectives=== | |||
Adjectives agree with their head noun in case, number, and gender. | |||
(inflection tables here) | |||
===Postpositions=== | ===Postpositions=== | ||
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===Derivational morphology=== | ===Derivational morphology=== | ||
Adverbs are formed with -э̄. | |||
====Part-of-speech modifiers==== | ====Part-of-speech modifiers==== | ||