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1) Transitive verbs in Magellanican have three voices:
1) Transitive verbs in Magellanican have three voices:


a) Neutral
a) Active


b) Agentive
b) Agentive
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|Voice||Abbreviation||Nominative Prefix?||Absolutive Suffix?||Promoted Argument||Case Of Demoted Argument||Function
|Voice||Abbreviation||Nominative Prefix?||Absolutive Suffix?||Promoted Argument||Case Of Demoted Argument||Function
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|Neutral||NEUT||Yes||Yes||N/A||N/A||No topicalisation of either argument
|Active||ACT||Yes||Yes||N/A||N/A||No topicalisation of either argument
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|Agentive||AGT||Yes||No||NOM||DAT||Topicalisation of A argument
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|Patientive||PAT||No||Yes||ABS||INST||Topicalisation of O argument
|Patientive||PAT||No||Yes||ABS||INST||Topicalisation of O argument
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|Agentive||AGT||Yes||No||NOM||DAT||Topicalisation of A argument
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