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===Weather and phenomena===
===Weather and phenomena===


Because these forces of nature are associated with high animate actors in Ash, the hierarchy (where high animates outrank even conjunct referents) means that verbs referring to them always take direct agency. Because this can be confusing without context, the force in question is usually topicalised using the determiner-classifier combination {{ash|oa na}} (not unlike "it" in "it's raining" in English).
Because forces of nature are associated with high animate actors in Ash, the hierarchy (where high animates outrank even conjunct referents) means that verbs referring to them always take direct agency. Because this can be confusing without context, the force in question is usually topicalised using the determiner-classifier combination {{ash|oa na}} (not unlike "it" in "it's raining" in English).


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