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| style="text-align:center" | Incorporated Noun | | style="text-align:center" | Incorporated Noun | ||
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center" | Tense/Aspect | | colspan="2" style="text-align:center" | Tense/Aspect | ||
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! colspan="8" | Finals | ! colspan="8" | Finals | ||
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Nevertheless, there are certain patterns shared by both languages. In both languages, the scalar operators appear before the verb root in both languages. The position of the incorporated noun appears directly after the verb in both languages also, which is otherwise a rare phenomenon in polysynthetic languages. The causative is in preverbal position in both languages, occupying a single slot within the Nahónda verb template, and Slot 3 of the Preverbal affixes in the Minhast template. Moreover, the tense/aspect | Nevertheless, there are certain patterns shared by both languages. In both languages, the scalar operators appear before the verb root in both languages. The position of the incorporated noun appears directly after the verb in both languages also, which is otherwise a rare phenomenon in polysynthetic languages. The causative is in preverbal position in both languages, occupying a single slot within the Nahónda verb template, and Slot 3 of the Preverbal affixes in the Minhast template. Moreover, the tense/aspect appear postverbally and in the same order in both languages. The so-called "Conjugation Class" slot in the Nahónda verb template also coincides with the position of the Minhast transitivity markers. The placement of these slots relative to the verb root is not coincidental but is the result from a shared ancestry. | ||
Interestingly, their non-polysynthetic relative, Nankôre, employs a similar process to noun incorporation called ''quasi-incorporation''. And just as in Nahónda and Minhast, the quasi-incorporated noun appears after the main verb but before the auxiliary ''itá''': | Interestingly, their non-polysynthetic relative, Nankôre, employs a similar process to noun incorporation called ''quasi-incorporation''. And just as in Nahónda and Minhast, the quasi-incorporated noun appears after the main verb but before the auxiliary ''itá''': | ||
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| ''nahón=eló'' "that man next to you" | | ''nahón=eló'' "that man next to you" | ||
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* Minhast Gull Speaker dialect: <br/>''- | * Minhast Gull Speaker dialect: <br/>''-eyyar-, -yyar-'' | ||
* Nankôre: ''yaiyayri'' | * Nankôre: ''yaiyayri'' | ||
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|''nahón=peló'' "yonder man"" | |''nahón=peló'' "yonder man"" | ||
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* Minhast Gull Speaker dialect: <br/>''- | * Minhast Gull Speaker dialect: <br/>''-ppeyyar-'' | ||
* Nankôre: ''paypayri'' | * Nankôre: ''paypayri'' | ||
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