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Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs. | Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs. | ||
There are only two tenses: past and non-past. | |||
Modern Netagin has an extreme form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense:'' When an ergative preposition is used, the sentence is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about via a merger of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''se3þe'' 'after' from an older split-ergative system. | Modern Netagin has an extreme form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense:'' When an ergative preposition is used, the sentence is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about via a merger of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''se3þe'' 'after' from an older split-ergative system. | ||