Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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*The noun is a complement of a verb of state, change of state, or enacting a change of state (making X into Y). | *The noun is a complement of a verb of state, change of state, or enacting a change of state (making X into Y). | ||
**The copula is rarely used in the present indicative in full clauses. Instead, an equational sentence begins with the subject, and a 3rd- or a 4th-person pronoun (cliticized and therefore toneless) agreeing with the subject may be used anywhere in the sentence, or omitted (as is often the case, as the predicate adjectives and the end of each noun phrase are quite transparent). When the clitic pronoun is used it may precede or follow the predicate noun or adjective. | **The copula is rarely used in the present indicative in full clauses. Instead, an equational sentence begins with the subject, and a 3rd- or a 4th-person pronoun (cliticized and therefore toneless) agreeing with the subject may be used anywhere in the sentence, or omitted (as is often the case, as the predicate adjectives and the end of each noun phrase are quite transparent). When the clitic pronoun is used it may precede or follow the predicate noun or adjective. | ||
*The verb's (usually a modal) complement can be expressed by the phrase ''vā́cḗð'' (the supine of the copula) [noun/adjective]: '' | *The verb's (usually a modal) complement can be expressed by the phrase ''vā́cḗð'' (the supine of the copula) [noun/adjective]: ''Tír fūlāný vā́ga.'' 'I wiill not let him be evil.' | ||
===Predicative possession=== | ===Predicative possession=== | ||