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==== Verbs ====
==== Verbs ====
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! Tense !! Form !! Header text
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| Mythological Past || man || Example
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| Distal Past || suphi || Example
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| Past || itá|| Example
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| Recent Morning Past || ho || Example
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| Present || sipá|| NB: This particle is optional and usually left out.
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| Future || pa || Example
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Verbs in Nankôre, as in many other languages, can perform valence operations to alter the argument structure of a clause.  Agents and Patients may be demoted from their core status,  Patients may be promoted to a derived Subject, and Obliques may be promoted to a derived Patient role.  Nankôre has a several auxiliary verbs that perform passivation, antipassivation, and applicativization.  In a language that has virtually no adpositions or case markings on the NPs, valence operations conducted by these auxiliary verbs, particularly the applicative auxiliaries, are exploited to encode spatial or directional information that case affixes or adpositions perform in other languages.  The animacy system interacts with these auxiliary verbs, called ''valence auxiliaries'' in the linguistic literature of Nankôre.
Verbs in Nankôre, as in many other languages, can perform valence operations to alter the argument structure of a clause.  Agents and Patients may be demoted from their core status,  Patients may be promoted to a derived Subject, and Obliques may be promoted to a derived Patient role.  Nankôre has a several auxiliary verbs that perform passivation, antipassivation, and applicativization.  In a language that has virtually no adpositions or case markings on the NPs, valence operations conducted by these auxiliary verbs, particularly the applicative auxiliaries, are exploited to encode spatial or directional information that case affixes or adpositions perform in other languages.  The animacy system interacts with these auxiliary verbs, called ''valence auxiliaries'' in the linguistic literature of Nankôre.
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