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The Applicative affixes betray their origins as motion and positional verbs. However, Applicatives, unlike their locomotive verbal counterparts, also alter the argument structure of a clause by promoting an oblique NP to a derived Patient argument; this promotion of an oblique argument triggers the demotion of the original Patient argument to oblique status.  Applicatives are mutually incompatible with the Passive and Antipassive markers that are carried on the auxiliary verb (see section on Auxiliary Verbs below).  However, since the Applicatives increase the transitivity of a clause, thereby creating a derived Patient, the Inverse Prefix can be prefixed to the Applicative in the usual manner, namely, to mark lower animacy core arguments as Agents and higher animacy arguments as Patients in transitive clauses.

! !! Applicative Marker!!  Meaning

| san-|| to, towards

| nas-|| for

| ya(m)-|| with, along

| mak-|| by means of, using

| ri(s)-|| from

| ne(h)-|| in, within

| nak-|| through

| nakri-|| out of

| nak-|| into

| or-|| above

| yor-|| below

| suk-|| from above

| roy-|| from below

| tek(i)-|| across

| tem-, ten-|| along a river

| yayk-|| upwards on a mountain