Ash: Difference between revisions

The fossilised set of nouns that take the possessive prefix {{ash|n-}} can follow directly after a classified possessor.

|phrase={{ash|ảhdo ga ndoo ya}}

|gloss=Atwa=CLF POSS-foot=CLF.TOP

|translation=Atwa's foot

}}

|phrase={{ash|ảhdo gã bmo͠o na}}

|gloss=Atwa=CLF POSS-head=CLF.TOP

|translation=Atwa's head

}}

Otherwise converbs such as the locative {{ash|-s}} serve to mark the possessor of a possessum depending on the relationship.

|phrase={{ash|ảhdo gas ảnda mmo}}

|gloss=Atwa=CLF-LOC bread=CLF.TOP

|translation=Atwa's bread (lit. "bread at Atwa"; they already have it)

}}

|phrase={{ash|ảhdo gawı ảnda mmo}}

|gloss=Atwa=CLF-BEN bread=CLF.TOP

|translation=Atwa's bread (lit. "bread for Atwa"; they do not yet have it)

}}

==Pragmatics and conventions==