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===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Verbs have elaborate but quite regular inflection. Finite verbs are marked for TAM, mirativity, voice (active and passive), the subject's (and the object's, if it is indexed) person, number, and gender. Verbs also have several non-finite forms, used with various subordinating conjunctions and relative clauses | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" | ||
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Verbs have elaborate but quite regular inflection. Finite verbs are marked for TAM, mirativity, voice (active and passive), the subject's (and the object's, if it is indexed) person, number, and gender. The Themsarian TAM system is in some ways quite archaic: for instance, it preserves Proto-Gamedan stative endings as preterite endings, and it uses reduplication as the subjunctive. Verbs also have several non-finite forms, used with various subordinating conjunctions and relative clauses. | |||
====Verbal agreement==== | |||
If the direct object is definite, the verb is obligatorily marked with the direct object's person, number, and gender. | |||
Definite direct object agreement is not required: | Definite direct object agreement is not required: | ||
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{{PAGENAME}} verbs display so-called ''first-conjunct agreement'' as common amongst VSO languages, i.e. when the verb precedes a subject composed of two or more conjunctive noun phrases (in the form ''A ie B ie C''), the verb will agree with the first NP. With the conjunctions ''at'' 'or' or ''nu'' 'xor' in the subject, the verb agrees with the nearest subject. In the case of coordinated objects the verb agrees with the first contiguous noun phrase (i.e. 'and' has higher precedence than 'or'). | {{PAGENAME}} verbs display so-called ''first-conjunct agreement'' as common amongst VSO languages, i.e. when the verb precedes a subject composed of two or more conjunctive noun phrases (in the form ''A ie B ie C''), the verb will agree with the first NP. With the conjunctions ''at'' 'or' or ''nu'' 'xor' in the subject, the verb agrees with the nearest subject. In the case of coordinated objects the verb agrees with the first contiguous noun phrase (i.e. 'and' has higher precedence than 'or'). | ||
====Verbal prefixes==== | ====Verbal prefixes==== | ||