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====Temporal Deictic Particles and Clitics ====

The Temporal Deitic particles usually occur at the head of a sentence, e.g. ''Antak Anut America san-kamuk tā'itá' '', "A year ago, Anut flew to America".  In multiclausal sentences, the clause in which they appear have scope over the all other clauses following it. At least one, ''yorai'', cannot appear after the initial clause.  These particles may also attach to the main verb in reduced form as clitics, and in the process replace the copula's tense affixes of the Direct Voice, as in ''Anut America ta=san-kamuk=inkát itá' '' "Several years ago Anut flew to America" (note that the Temporal Deictic clitic ''=inkát'' has replaced the past tense affix ''tā-'' in ''tā'itá' ''). The absence of these particles contrasts with the Direct Voice Distal Past form ''suphitá' '', in ''Anut America san-kamuk suphitá' '', "Anut went to America a while back".  Also note that the other verb voices do not lose their tense markers, as in ''Otok erashi ta-karok=inkat ta'itá''' (boy crab INV-eat=several.years.ago INV.PST-COP) "The crab ate the boy."