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Determiners can be omitted in elevated language. | Determiners can be omitted in elevated language. | ||
===Predicates are fronted=== | |||
Eevo has no copula. Instead, the "predicate" or the focused constituent is fronted. | |||
''D'iant va duvwŋym.'' = The teacher is sleeping. | |||
===Verb phrase=== | ===Verb phrase=== | ||
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:even NEG PROG eat 3sg.m TO anything | :even NEG PROG eat 3sg.m TO anything | ||
:''He's not even eating anything.'' | :''He's not even eating anything.'' | ||
===TAM marking=== | ===TAM marking=== | ||
Verbs have little inflection, and the bulk of verbs are completely regular. Eevo TAM marking tends to emphasize aspect more than tense, unusually for Talmic languages. | Verbs have little inflection, and the bulk of verbs are completely regular. Eevo TAM marking tends to emphasize aspect more than tense, unusually for Talmic languages. | ||