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====Temporal Deictic Particles and Clitics ==== | ====Temporal Deictic Particles and Clitics ==== | ||
The Temporal Deitic particles usually occur at the head of a sentence, e.g. ''Antak Anut | The Temporal Deitic particles usually occur at the head of a sentence, e.g. ''Antak Anut Amerika san-kamuk hitá' '', "A year ago, Anut flew to America". In multiclausal sentences, the clause in which they appear have scope over the all other clauses following it. At least one, ''yorai'', cannot appear after the initial clause. These particles may also attach to the main verb in reduced form as clitics, as in ''Anut Amerika san-kamuk-entak hitá'''. | ||
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