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====Positional and Motion Verbs====

As an example, the auxiliary ''kohán'' passivizes the clause, resulting in a one-argument clause containing only the logical Patient.  Since there is only one core argument, the need for inverse marking no longer exists, and in fact the presence of both the passive auxiliary ''kohán'' and the inverse marker ''tā-/tāh-''' in the same sentence is ungrammatical. The same is true for the antipassive auxilliary ''norhe''/''norhâ'', that is the logical Patient is deleted leaving only the agent, and so once again, the presence of the inverse ''tā-/tāh-'' is ungrammatical.  When either the Agent or the Patient has been deleted by the passive or antipassive auxiliaries, one thing that must be noted is that the demoted arguments are fully deleted. In other languages that have passives and/or antipassives, demoted core arguments need not be deleted, in fact in many languages the demoted argument may still be retained in the sentence, but this time as an oblique argument.  Such is not the case in Nankôre; the former core argument cannot appear in the sentence.

The applicative verbs promote an Oblique argument to core status, thereby creating a derived Patient.  This results in a transitive sentence, and the inverse marker ''tā-/tāh-'' once again can be used to disambiguate the roles of the core arguments if a lower-animacy argument is an Agent.  Interestingly, unlike passivation and antipassivation, the demoted core argument, which is always the former Patient, can still appear in the clause as an Oblique argument, marked with the connective ''si-''  There are several of these auxiliaries, listed in the following table:

The Positional/Motion verbs usually appear at the beginning of the VP.

These auxiliaries are often confused for adpositions, or relational nouns, but unlike adpositions and locative nouns, these auxiliaries are full-fledged verbs.  If inverse marking is required, the prefix ''tā/tāh'' is still prefixed to the auxiliary verb.  Likewise, aspect and modality markers are attached to the auxiliary, a process that occurs only with verbs in the language, never with nouns.  Moreover, these auxiliaries can stand alone as independent verbs, such as ''Kosmakis Anut yampe itá'' "Anut walked with Koshmak" (''yampe '' = to be arm-in-arm; c.f. ''yanup'' "elbow").

====Derivation ====