Adwan: Difference between revisions

Adwan exhibits little to no standalone determiners as free morphemes. Instead, an array of determiner infixes are used with nouns, with determiner and possessive infixes exhibiting a complementary distribution (i.e., determiner infixes and posssessive infixes can never be found together in the same noun, each being seen as exclusive to the other). Thus, in order to express <i>"This is my dog"</i>, the determiners corresponding to 'this' and 'my' would need to belong to separate head nouns. Consider the infix <i>-ent-</i>. While the utterance <i>'purgenta'</i> and <i>'purgina'</i> roughly translate to 'this dog' and 'my dog', the corresponding expressions for 'this is my dog' and 'this dog is mine' would require the determiner infix <i>-ent-</i> corresponding to 'this' and the determiner infix <i>-in-</i> corresponding to 'my' would need to be situated in entirely different nouns; as mentioned above, the empty noun stem <i>h</i> is used in these sorts of situations, as shown below:

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