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===Syntax===
===Syntax===


Thanks to the grammatical cases word order was probably somewhat free in PAI, reflected by the resulting differences in word order in the daughter branches as they solidified their own word order in different ways as the case endings collapsed. Ash settled on auxiliary-noun-verb whereas Ish settled on verb-auxiliary-noun.
Thanks to the grammatical cases word order was probably somewhat free in PAI, reflected by the resulting differences in the daughter branches as they solidified their own word order in different ways as the case endings collapsed. Ash settled on auxiliary-noun-verb whereas Ish settled on verb-auxiliary-noun.


The auxiliary verbs appear to have been used with a kind of participle ending in {{ash|*-er}}.
The auxiliary verbs appear to have been used with a kind of participle ending in {{ash|*-er}}.
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