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The copula ''vák'' is rarely used in the present tense. Instead, a 3rd- or a 4th-person pronoun (cliticized and therefore toneless) agreeing with the subject may be used anywhere in the sentence, or omitted. Both subject-predicate and predicate-subject orders may be found, but the latter is more common with pronominal subjects. When the subject is a pronoun, the uncliticized pronoun is used. | The copula ''vák'' is rarely used in the present tense. Instead, a 3rd- or a 4th-person pronoun (cliticized and therefore toneless) agreeing with the subject may be used anywhere in the sentence, or omitted. Both subject-predicate and predicate-subject orders may be found, but the latter is more common with pronominal subjects. When the subject is a pronoun, the uncliticized pronoun is used. | ||
===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, with fourth person pronouns or by other means. | |||
====Across clauses==== | ====Across clauses==== | ||
====Content questions==== | |||
The fourth person object suffix is used on the verb, not the third person, when the interrogative word is the direct object. This distinguishes "Who killed him?" from "Whom did he kill?" | |||
====Possessives==== | ====Possessives==== | ||
If an absolute possessed noun has a possessor who is the subject of the clause it is in, the third person is used. All other possessors of the same gender and number are in the fourth person. | |||
====Relative clauses==== | ====Relative clauses==== | ||
Any pronoun which corefers with the head of the relative clause is in the fourth person. The non-resumptive third-person pronouns are all ordinary third person. | |||
====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. | |||
==Derivational morphology== | ==Derivational morphology== | ||
[[Category:Conlangs]][[Category:A priori]] | [[Category:Conlangs]][[Category:A priori]] | ||