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syntactic implications of pronouns: ''mûm suma ’ûliru āmfár'', ''mûm sumiru ’ûl āmfár'' , and ''mûmim muru ’ûl āmfár'' are all equivalent to "the man's mother died". ...not in construct state because of the possessive pronoun | syntactic implications of pronouns: ''mûm suma ’ûliru āmfár'', ''mûm sumiru ’ûl āmfár'' , and ''mûmim muru ’ûl āmfár'' are all equivalent to "the man's mother died". ...not in construct state because of the possessive pronoun | ||
====Specialities[...]==== | |||
The collective use of the article in a sentence triggers the construct state in its most distant members. For example, when there are two or more subjects: | |||
: '''''bîbli''' saíkat iru'' "the book and the philosopher" | |||
Or two or more objects: | |||
: ''iskít iruk bîbl '''kî’in''''' "the philosopher is with the book and the clock" | |||
: ''atu'' "you" + ''anu'' "I" = ''anu-ta'' "you and I" | |||
===Word Order=== | ===Word Order=== | ||