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| ==Features== | | ==Features== |
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| ===Syntactic roles===
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| PAI appears to have had adpositions that became postpositions and eventually suffixes in Proto-Ash whereas they became prepositions in Ish.
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| ! PAI
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| | {{ash|*awa ant}},<br />{{ash|*ant awa}}
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| | valign="top" | → {{ash|*(a)wa-(a)n(t)}} → {{ash|*wa-n}}
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| | valign="top" | → {{ash|*a(n)t-(a)ɰa}} → {{ash|odo /at-ɰa/}}
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| This adposition in Proto-Ash became the relational or locative case ending while in Ish it became the indirect object marker. Both reflexes are combined with the distal determiner ("that one") above.
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| ===Deixis=== | | ===Deixis=== |
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| The aforementioned distal determiner is another example of common inheritance from PAI shared between the daughter branches alongside its proximal counterpart. | | The proximal and distal determiners are an example of common inheritance from PAI shared between the daughter branches. |
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