Ín Duári: Difference between revisions

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===Verbs===
===Verbs===


The Ín Duári verb is moderately synthetic, capable of indicating voice, tense, and aspect.  Three tenses, a present, past, and future are distinguished.  Additionally, three aspects are marked, namely the habitual, imperfect and perfect.  However, person is not marked and requires a pronoun or an overt noun preceding the verb.  Pro-drop is allowed only in embedded clauses and only if the subject of the embedded clause is the same as that of its matrix clause.  Mood is for the most part indicated by particles preceding the main verb; however, an inflectional Purposive mood exists.
The Ín Duári verb is moderately synthetic, capable of indicating voice, tense, and aspect.  Three tenses, a present, past, and future are distinguished.  Additionally, three aspects are marked, namely the habitual, imperfect and perfect.  However, person is not marked and requires a pronoun or an overt noun preceding the verb.  Pro-drop is allowed only in embedded clauses and only if the subject of the embedded clause is the same as that of its matrix clause.  Mood is for the most part indicated by particles preceding the main verb; however, an inflectional Purposive mood exists.  The Purposive exists only in the Active voice and is uninflected for tense, instead inheriting its tense marking from the verb in the matrix clause.


Ín Duári lacks an infinitive but possesses two non-finite forms, namely the gerund and participle, and a base verbal noun, which may take additional derivational suffixes.
Ín Duári lacks an infinitive but possesses two non-finite forms, namely the gerund and participle, and a base verbal noun, which may take additional derivational suffixes.
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! Tense-Aspect !! Active !! Passive
! TAM !! Active !! Passive
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! Past Habitual
! Past Habitual
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| evaráien || azvaraiél
| evaráien || azvaraiél
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! Purposive
| varánuiþ
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The Purposive mood exists only in the Active voice and is uninflected for tense, instead inheriting its tense marking from the verb in the matrix clause.  Additionally, the Past and Non-Past Habitual forms have merged.
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The non-finite forms inflect for case and number:
The non-finite forms inflect for case and number:
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