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| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic;" | vaun | | style="text-align: center; font-style:italic;" | vaun | ||
| Indicates that the head does something. | | Indicates that the head does something. | ||
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! style="text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | Locative | |||
| style="text-align: center;" | <code>LOC</code> | |||
| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic;" | ddal | |||
| Indicates where the head is located. | |||
|} | |} | ||
As relativizers, they can be translated as such: <code>COP = which is</code>, <code>POSS = which has</code>, and <code>ACT = which does</code>. | As relativizers, they can be translated as such: <code>COP = which is</code>, <code>POSS = which has</code>, and <code>ACT = which does</code> (the locative is used only as a copula). | ||
As copula, <code>COP</code> equates a subject noun with another noun, possessive pronoun, color, or number; <code>POSS</code> equates a subject noun with an adjective that's not a possessive pronoun, color, or number; | As copula, <code>COP</code> equates a subject noun with another noun, possessive pronoun, color, or number; <code>POSS</code> equates a subject noun with an adjective that's not a possessive pronoun, color, or number; <code>ACT</code> doubles as a sort of gnomic aspect particle for [[w: Intransitive_verb|intransitive verbs]]; and <code>LOC</code> indicates the location of the subject. Since these are particles, the word order for these particular types of sentences appears to change to SVO and the accusative particle is omitted. | ||
'''wizddaaniya va ggarimalun.''' | '''wizddaaniya va ggarimalun.''' | ||
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"Wistania fares well" (Lit. "Wistania flies.") | "Wistania fares well" (Lit. "Wistania flies.") | ||
Technically, these are incomplete sentences, indicating only a noun and a relative clause without a compliment. However, they are considered perfectly viable sentences. | '''wizddaniya ddal vimanbbaggu??''' | ||
wizddaniya ddal viman-bbaggu. | |||
Wistania LOC sky -SUBE. | |||
"Wistania is under the sky." | |||
Technically, these are incomplete sentences, indicating only a noun and a relative clause without a compliment. However, they are considered perfectly viable sentences. | |||
====Coordinating Particles==== | ====Coordinating Particles==== | ||