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**verb-initial clauses | **verb-initial clauses | ||
*heavy grammatical use of pronominal suffixes/enclitics on possessed nouns, verbs and prepositions, that index their dependents | *heavy grammatical use of pronominal suffixes/enclitics on possessed nouns, verbs and prepositions, that index their dependents | ||
**some languages | **some descendent languages creep toward being polysynthetic, supplanting former finite verbs with possessed infinitives and participles | ||
*[[w:Differential object marking|differential]] indexing of the direct object and the possessor, and occasionally the prepositional object | *[[w:Differential object marking|differential]] indexing of the direct object and the possessor, and occasionally the prepositional object | ||
*grammatical apophony (tonal, vocalic or consonantal) | *grammatical apophony (tonal, vocalic or consonantal) | ||