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===Coreferentiality=== | ===Coreferentiality=== | ||
There are several situations where the strictly head-marking language tracks coreferentiality, or which agreeing noun a verb or pronoun taking a given agreement refers to | There are several situations where the strictly head-marking language tracks coreferentiality, or which agreeing noun a verb or pronoun taking a given agreement refers to. | ||
==== | ====Inverse marking==== | ||
Themsaran has verbal affixes that force a particular, marked order of the sentence, called [[w:inverse marking|inverse marking]] | |||
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|+'''Verbal inverse marking''' | |||
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!|Constituents!!Direct (unless otherwise marked)!!Inverse (forced reading) | |||
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||VN||VS||VO | |||
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||NV||SV||OV | |||
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||VNN||VSO||VOS | |||
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||NVN||SVO||OVS | |||
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||NNV||OSV||SOV | |||
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====Proximate/Obviative==== | |||
The span governed by a discourse topic varies widely among writers; while earlier writers maintained a strict distinction between proximate and obviative reference in narrating events, later writers preferred a much shorter span, often only a single sentence, thereby reducing the scope of the obviative system to that of a topic-focus system. | The span governed by a discourse topic varies widely among writers; while earlier writers maintained a strict distinction between proximate and obviative reference in narrating events, later writers preferred a much shorter span, often only a single sentence, thereby reducing the scope of the obviative system to that of a topic-focus system. | ||
====Possessives==== | ====Possessives==== | ||
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====Indirect speech==== | ====Indirect speech==== | ||
If the complement clause's subject corefers with the subject of the main clause, it is left unstated in the complement clause. Otherwise the third- or fourth-person pronoun is used as the subject as appropriate. | If the complement clause's subject corefers with the subject of the main clause, it is left unstated in the complement clause. Otherwise the third- or fourth-person pronoun is used as the subject as appropriate. | ||
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==="Impersonal" sentences=== | ==="Impersonal" sentences=== |