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|translation=Ao's hair is fair | |translation=Ao's hair is fair | ||
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Used this way they nonetheless remain verbs with accompanying syntactic implications. Since they create subclauses, a nominal specified for category with a locative verb cannot be used in object position and so will always precede any agent. | |||
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|phrase=emmõõ bo ao ehbadsa | |||
|IPA=[ʔɪmˈmũ̯õ̞ː‿ᵐbʊ‿ʔɑːʊ̯‿je̞ħˈpɑʔ.t̠͡s̠ɐ] | |||
|gloss=POSS-head LOC:CRESC.STAT.IND ao PROX-TR-hand.FREQ.ACT.IND | |||
|translation=Ao is braiding my hair | |||
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Since the locative verbs are only necessary when introducing new information, this ties neatly into the established system of topicalisation by fronting and so the net effect is that this limitation does not make much of a difference to normal syntax. Nominals can then be unambiguously reüsed without the classifying verb as the information is thenceforth known from the previously established context. Note that if the classified nominal had been animate in the above example (''mõõ'' is not) inversion would have been necessary in order to specify it as the object rather than subject as usual. | |||
===Specification=== | ===Specification=== | ||