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The obviative form of the tense-person marker, used to mark agreement of verbs with the less animate actor of a clause with different actors of the same semanticly adscribed degree of animacy, as it sepparates actors, can be used on its own to mark the shift in referent within a single clause, while the anaphoric reference shift particle can also be used over longer discourse segments. | The obviative form of the tense-person marker, used to mark agreement of verbs with the less animate actor of a clause with different actors of the same semanticly adscribed degree of animacy, as it sepparates actors, can be used on its own to mark the shift in referent within a single clause, while the anaphoric reference shift particle can also be used over longer discourse segments. | ||
====Verbal compounding==== | |||
Two verbal roots are combined to convey a new meaning (see ''Derivational morphology: Special compositional functions of verbs''). | |||
===Animacy, control and volition=== | ===Animacy, control and volition=== | ||