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 **ongFa- = X for oneself, X in advance
-====Triggers====
+==== Verb infixes ====
-Triggers (giving the noun in the direct case specific semantic roles) were marked by adding infixes to the verbal grade of the root. Proto-Lakovic had eight triggers:
+Verb infixes marked lexical aspect and voice/transitivity/denominality.
 *'''agent''' trigger: unmarked?
 *'''patient''' trigger: {{angbr|əp}}
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 *'''benefactive''' trigger: {{angbr|əkəm}}
 *'''comitative''' trigger: {{angbr|lis}}
-In most branches (Ashanic, Tseeric, Tumhanic, Pfiunic, Häskä, Tsrovesh), the original trigger system became a set of derivational affixes, much like binyanim (originally marking voice) in Semitic languages. Txapoallian Lakovic reinterpreted the trigger system into a more head-marking, polysynthetic system. Only some modern Eta-Lakovic languages retain a trigger system today.
 ====Nominalization====