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| =====Animacy-Number Agreement Marking=====
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| Transitive verbs mark number on core arguments by ablaut, or by adding a prefix, to the auxiliary. These markers indicate the number of both the higher animate and the lower animate arguments.
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| ! !! Higher Animate Singular !! Higher Animate Plural
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| ! style=""| Lower Animate Singular
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| | first /a/ lengthened to /a:/
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| # Rompóy kurasno rayro ta'itá'. "The girl played with the dog."
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| # Rompóy kurasno tarayro ta'itá'. "The dog played with the girls."
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| # Rompóy kurasno rayro ti-ta'itá'. "The girls played with the dog."
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| # Rompóy kurasno tarayro ti-ta'itá'. "The dog played with the girl."
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| # Rompóy kurasno rayro kor tā'itá'. "The girl played with the dogs."
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| # Rompóy kurasno tarayro kor tā'itá'. "The dogs played with the girl."
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| # Rompóy kurasno rayro ita-tā'itá'. "The girls played with the dogs."
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| # Rompóy kurasno tarayro ita-tā'itá'. "The dogs played with the girls."
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| =====Auxiliary Verbs ===== | | =====Auxiliary Verbs ===== |