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The adjective ''erva'' "small" both begins and ends with a vowel, as seen from the Ammerkast and the original ''Širkattarnaft'' text. No mutation, vowel syncope, or other sandhi of ''úla'' "you" is indicated. While vowels usually lenite a stop to a fricative, they usually have no effect on a pre-existing fricative in the following word, unless the word has the determiner ''ha='' cliticized to it; such a case would trigger either palatalization and possibly syncope as in *''erva yulka''[[Vadi#Footnotes |<sup>4</sup>]] << ''erva ha=vûluka''. | The adjective ''erva'' "small" both begins and ends with a vowel, as seen from the Ammerkast and the original ''Širkattarnaft'' text. No mutation, vowel syncope, or other sandhi of ''úla'' "you" is indicated. While vowels usually lenite a stop to a fricative, they usually have no effect on a pre-existing fricative in the following word, unless the word has the determiner ''ha='' cliticized to it; such a case would trigger either palatalization and possibly syncope as in *''erva yulka''[[Vadi#Footnotes |<sup>4</sup>]] << ''erva ha=vûluka''. | ||
Vadi has no copula. To express the copula, the adjective is placed at the end of the clause. | |||
{{Gloss | |||
|phrase = Danar kuda hai imu Sorvin ga~kamatkamat. | |||
| IPA = /'danar 'kuda haɪ 'imu 'sorvin 'gamatkamat/ | |||
| morphemes = danar kuda hai, imu sorvin gamat-kamat | |||
| gloss = place.name beautiful PST until PN burn-burn | |||
| translation = Danar was a beautiful place until Sorvin utterly torched it. | |||
}} | |||
Again, neither the ''Širkattarnaft'' and the Ammerkast transcriptions indicate that the adjective ''kuda'' "beautiful" has undergone nor triggered any phonological changes. The phonemes /ɾ/ + /k/ do not undergo any changes when adjacent to each other, and ''kuda'' does not lenite to ''/'kud͡ʒɛɪ/'' even though the past tense clitic ''hai'' appears after it, since a final /a/ prevents lenition if it was etymologically derived from /aʔ/ or /aɦ/. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||