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The reportative is actually an evidentiality marker that can be affixed to ''any'' unit of speech, including verbs or even entire phrases and sentences. | The reportative is actually an evidentiality marker that can be affixed to ''any'' unit of speech, including verbs or even entire phrases and sentences. | ||
===Nominalisation=== | |||
There are a variety of suffixes that can be used for nominalisation. These include: | |||
* <strong>-mA</strong>, often used for nominalising verbs, adjectives and phrases, | |||
* <strong>-wE</strong>, used for nouns about people, and sometimes actor nouns | |||
* <strong>-mǫ</strong>, used for things, phenomena (which -mA is often used for too) | |||
* <strong>-mIx</strong>, used for certain tools and helpful objects | |||
* <strong>-ti</strong>, a fossilised nominaliser of unknown meaning | |||
In addition, the masculine, feminine and inanimate suffixes might also be of use (see [[#Verbs]]). | |||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== |
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