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→The Verb Phrase Structure
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| translation = The dog was going up the mountain with the girl, I heard. | | translation = The dog was going up the mountain with the girl, I heard. | ||
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The verbal elements follow a relatively strict order. The required elements for a VP to be well-formed are the Main Verb and the Auxiliary. Adjuncts are unbound morphemes, and exhibit rather free order; however, they are barred from appearing between the Inverse Marker and any following verb, be it the Coverb or the Main Verb. If a Coverb appears between the Inverse Marker and Main Verb, an adjunct may appear between the Coverb and Main Verb. However, if the Inverse Marker is not followed by a Coverb, then an adjunct may not appear between the Inverse Marker and the Main Verb. Moreover, if Pseudo-Noun Incorporation (PNI) takes place, an adjunct may not intervene between the Main Verb and the Pseudo-incorporated noun (PIN). | The verbal elements follow a relatively strict order. The required elements for a VP to be well-formed are the Main Verb and the Auxiliary. Adjuncts are unbound morphemes, and exhibit rather free order; however, they are barred from appearing between the Inverse Marker and any following verb, be it the Coverb or the Main Verb. If a Coverb appears between the Inverse Marker and Main Verb, an adjunct may appear between the Coverb and Main Verb. However, if the Inverse Marker is not followed by a Coverb, then an adjunct may not appear between the Inverse Marker and the Main Verb. Moreover, if Pseudo-Noun Incorporation (PNI) takes place, an adjunct may not intervene between the Main Verb and the Pseudo-incorporated noun (PIN). | ||
Although Nankôre is not a polysynthetic language, | Although Nankôre is not a polysynthetic language, templatic representations like those of its polysynthetic cousins | ||
Minhast and Nahónda, provide a useful visual tool to demonstrate the Nankôre verb phrase structure: | Minhast and Nahónda, provide a useful visual tool to demonstrate the Nankôre verb phrase structure: | ||
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! 1 | ! 1 | ||
| Aspect | | Aspect | ||
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| Examplexxx | | Examplexxx | ||
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! + | ! +2 | ||
| Inverse Marker 2 | |||
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! +3 | |||
| Copula | | Copula | ||
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! +4 | |||
| Irrealis | |||
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|- Example | |- Example | ||