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The | The Coverbs affixes betray their origins as motion and positional verbs. However, Coverbs, unlike their locomotive verbal counterparts, also alter the argument structure of a clause by promoting an oblique NP to a derived Patient argument; this promotion of an oblique argument triggers the demotion of the original Patient argument to oblique status. When the Inverse marker cliticizes to an Coverbs, morphophonemic may alternations occur. | ||
Because of their origin from motion and positional verbs, these affixes are prefixed to the main verb. | Because of their origin from motion and positional verbs, these affixes are prefixed to the main verb. | ||
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! !! | ! !! Coverb Marker!! Inverse Marker + Applicative Marker!! Meaning | ||
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! style=""| Dative/Allative | ! style=""| Dative/Allative | ||