Nankôre: Difference between revisions
| Line 580: | Line 580: | ||
======Tense and Voice ====== | ======Tense and Voice ====== | ||
Nankôre is rich in voice and tense distinctions. These distinctions are combined in an auxiliary verb, formed by adding one or more prefixes to the copular verb ''itá'' /ɪ'taʔ/. The tense affixes in the Neutral voice encode formality, with the long forms, i.e. ''man'itá', suphitá', tā'itá', hô'itá', and pā'itá''', used for formal situations. | |||
In a clause chain, the auxiliary for the Neutral voice may be dropped after the first clause from the entire discourse. All clauses following the initial clause take the dropped auxiliary's tense; if the auxiliary is mentioned again, it usually is done to indicate a tense shift. However, if the auxiliary is in any of the non-Neutral voices, it must be retained in the discourse. | In a clause chain, the auxiliary for the Neutral voice may be dropped after the first clause from the entire discourse. All clauses following the initial clause take the dropped auxiliary's tense; if the auxiliary is mentioned again, it usually is done to indicate a tense shift. However, if the auxiliary is in any of the non-Neutral voices, it must be retained in the discourse. | ||