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===Pronominal Constructions=== | ===Pronominal Constructions=== | ||
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''ûliru murasu' "the man is dead" | |||
''ûvil iru murá'' "the man is the dead one" ... ''ûl iru muraí'' "the man being dead" | |||
as ''murá'' bears no article in the first case... | |||
muráciru "the dead one" | |||
compare the use of the possessive pronoun in ''mûm siru'' "his mother" with ''mûm simiru ûl māfár'' "the man whose mother died" | |||
syntactic implications of pronouns: ''mûm sima ûliru māfár'', ''mûm simiru ûl māfár'' , and ''mûmim miru ûl māfár'' are all equivalent to "the man's mother died". ...not in construct state because of the possessive pronoun | |||
Unlike nouns, pronouns don't require articles (ones says ''anu valár'' "I am a person" and not ''*anu iru valár''). Also, when in construct state, they become clitics, either attached to nouns or the verbs they are objects/predicates of: | Unlike nouns, pronouns don't require articles (ones says ''anu valár'' "I am a person" and not ''*anu iru valár''). Also, when in construct state, they become clitics, either attached to nouns or the verbs they are objects/predicates of: | ||