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| translation = I will enter your house and ruin you! | | translation = I will enter your house and ruin you! | ||
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Core arguments take no marking. In transitive clauses, only word order distinguishes the subject and indirect object: | |||
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|phrase = Ji kusara iaviti nai. | |||
| IPA = | |||
| morphemes = ji kusara iaviti nai. | |||
| gloss = 1S meat buy FUT | |||
| translation = I shall buy meat. | |||
}} | |||
===Derivation=== | ===Derivation=== | ||
Derivational affixes occur in greater frequency, but the texts from the Scriptum suggest the overwhelming number of these affixes are no longer productive. For this reason, the general consensus among Vadists is that these affixes have been fossilized. A prefix ''pesa-'' occurs among some verbs that tends to give them causative meaning. For this reason some have speculated this is a borrowing from the Minhast causative prefix ''išp-''. This view is problematic however, because this prefix sometimes appears to intensify the meaning of the root. Moreover, it is also found attached to some nouns, but its addition does not appear to affect the semantics of the noun. | Derivational affixes occur in greater frequency, but the texts from the Scriptum suggest the overwhelming number of these affixes are no longer productive. For this reason, the general consensus among Vadists is that these affixes have been fossilized. A prefix ''pesa-'' occurs among some verbs that tends to give them causative meaning. For this reason some have speculated this is a borrowing from the Minhast causative prefix ''išp-''. This view is problematic however, because this prefix sometimes appears to intensify the meaning of the root. Moreover, it is also found attached to some nouns, but its addition does not appear to affect the semantics of the noun. | ||