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* Unmarked SOV word order (with S meaning what concords with the verb, at least where verbs conjugate for person) is common to all Lahob languages except Šlokhowdeš and the Woŋom-Baan branch (all predominantly SVO). | * Unmarked SOV word order (with S meaning what concords with the verb, at least where verbs conjugate for person) is common to all Lahob languages except Šlokhowdeš and the Woŋom-Baan branch (all predominantly SVO). | ||
* Location is expressed in all Lahob languages by means of numerous verbs with prefixes changing to convey the sense of different English prepositions. | * Location is expressed in all Lahob languages by means of numerous verbs with prefixes changing to convey the sense of different English prepositions. | ||
* Most Lahob languages treat verbs as a mostly closed verb class, with only a few basic verbs (usually from 10 to 30) used as compounds with other verbs or nominal roots; in languages where derivation is possible, verbs can usually only be derived from other verbs, and the only possible derived forms are usually causatives or applicatives. Chlouvānem is main exception, though this use is common in many of its daughter languages and sometimes spreads back into colloquial Chlouvānem (e.g. ''pāṭṭaruke'' (to study) vs. ''pāṭṭaru-dṛke'' (lit. "study-do")). | * Most Lahob languages treat verbs as a mostly closed verb class, with only a few basic verbs (usually from 10 to 30) used as compounds with other verbs or nominal roots; in languages where derivation is possible, verbs can usually only be derived from other verbs, and the only possible derived forms are usually causatives or applicatives. Chlouvānem is the main exception, though this use is common in many of its daughter languages and sometimes spreads back into colloquial Chlouvānem (e.g. ''pāṭṭaruke'' (to study) vs. ''pāṭṭaru-dṛke'' (lit. "study-do")). | ||
* Except for the Chlouvānem branch, Lahob languages all have very small case systems (absolutive and ergative, rarely dative) if they exist at all; they rely on a large number of adpositions instead. This is a major contrast to Proto-Lahob, which is reconstructed with eleven cases (just like classical Chlouvānem). | * Except for the Chlouvānem branch, Lahob languages all have very small case systems (absolutive and ergative, rarely dative) if they exist at all; they rely on a large number of adpositions instead. This is a major contrast to Proto-Lahob, which is reconstructed with eleven cases (just like classical Chlouvānem). | ||
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