Avalonian: Difference between revisions
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1) Transitive verbs in Magellanican have three voices: | 1) Transitive verbs in Magellanican have three voices: | ||
a) | a) Neutral | ||
b) | b) Agentive | ||
c) | c) Patientive | ||
2) These are indicated by the presence or absence of verbal pronominal affixes as per the table below: | 2) These are indicated by the presence or absence of verbal pronominal affixes as per the table below: | ||
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|Voice||Abbreviation||Nominative Prefix?||Absolutive Suffix?||Promoted Argument||Case Of Demoted Argument||Function | |Voice||Abbreviation||Nominative Prefix?||Absolutive Suffix?||Promoted Argument||Case Of Demoted Argument||Function | ||
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| | |Neutral||NEUT||Yes||Yes||N/A||N/A||No topicalisation of either argument | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Patientive||PAT||No||Yes||ABS||INST||Topicalisation of O argument | ||
|- | |- | ||
| | |Agentive||AGT||Yes||No||NOM||DAT||Topicalisation of A argument | ||
|} | |} | ||