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Tsrovesh sentence structure is SVO and head-final, except for complementizer phrases and prepositional phrases. Tsrovesh is not zero-copula; the word for 'to live' is used as a copula. Word order is strict, and topicalization occurs with the suffix ''-eti''. | Tsrovesh sentence structure is SVO and head-final, except for complementizer phrases and prepositional phrases (think Chinese). Tsrovesh is not zero-copula; the word for 'to live' is used as a copula. Word order is strict, and topicalization occurs with the suffix ''-eti''. | ||
===Noun phrase=== | ===Noun phrase=== | ||