Verse:Mwail/Old Gloob: Difference between revisions
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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==== | ====Inverse marking==== | ||
Themsaran has verbal affixes that force a particular, marked order of the sentence, | Themsaran has so-called "inverse" verbal affixes that force a particular, marked order of the sentence, rather like the Austronesian trigger system. This marker serves simultaneously to trigger a more focused meaning on the more fronted constituent. | ||
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|+'''Verbal inverse marking''' | |+'''Verbal inverse marking''' | ||