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The topic marker helps is used in [[w:anaphora|anaphoric]] and [[w:cataphora|cataphoric]] expression, and clears out reference. | The topic marker helps is used in [[w:anaphora|anaphoric]] and [[w:cataphora|cataphoric]] expression, and clears out reference. | ||
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| colspan="13"| ''Eric and John ate food, but he [John] didn't like it.'' | | colspan="13"| ''Eric and John ate food, but he [John] didn't like it.'' | ||
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In spoken Tsan, a more common word order would be "'''Érigi thayàmétin Yúniyas, ni thayàranash.'''", because there is an aversion to stacking proper nouns next to eachother. | |||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||