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*adjectives precede nouns while possessives follow | *adjectives precede nouns while possessives follow | ||
==Register== | |||
Different endings which reflect the conversation situation: speakers, familiarity, formality, location... | |||
Can people with higher status be abstract or do they occupy a special animate category? (æ inside?) | |||
One may use inanimate verb forms as anti-honorific? ''Ondakon næ ka Nithki.'' (I humbly offer this to You) | |||
In casual register, verb forms are chosen differently when the subject is agent-like (he dances) or patient-like (he fell): ''latepóji'' (he danced AN) vs. ''bousoi'' (he fell INAN) | |||
In formal register, it is preferred to use only animate nouns as agents while abstract and inanimate are as antipassive subjects: ''luwifo utelink nas'' ("beauty-of.yours un-eye-ful-makes me-with", your beauty makes me blind) vs. ''utelinken fø na'' (you are making me blind) | |||
==Lexicon== | ==Lexicon== | ||