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====The Verb Phrase====
====The Verb Phrase====


The following example demonstrates a complex verb predicate, with the Inverse marker ''ta='' cliticizing to the coverb ''yam'' (accompany) in the Imperfect aspect, followed by the main verb ''yayak'' (go up a mountain) with the adverbial suffix  ''=kor'', and finally the copular verb marked with the secondary Inverse clitic ''tā=''.
The following example demonstrates a complex verb predicate, with the Inverse marker ''ta='' cliticizing to the coverb ''yam'' (accompany) in the Imperfect aspect, followed by the main verb ''yayak'' (go up a mountain) with the Hearsay Evidential suffix  ''-kor'', and finally the copular verb marked with the secondary Inverse clitic ''tā=''.


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| IPA = /rom'poɪ ku'raʃno ta'yampo 'yayak hoʃma'kor ta:ʔɪt'aʔ/
| IPA = /rom'poɪ ku'raʃno ta'yampo 'yayak hoʃma'kor ta:ʔɪt'aʔ/
| morphemes = Rompóy kurasno ta=yam=po yayak hosma-kor tā'-itá'.
| morphemes = Rompóy kurasno ta=yam=po yayak hosma-kor tā'-itá'.
| gloss = dog girl INV=accompany=IMPF go.up.mountain=often INV-PST.COP
| gloss = dog girl INV=accompany=IMPF go.up.mountain=EVID.HEAR INV-PST.COP
| translation = The dog was going up the mountain with the girl.
| translation = The dog was going up the mountain with the girl, I heard.
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