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 == Morphology ==
 === Verbs ===
+==== The verb template ====
+{| class="wikitable"   style="display: inline-table;"
+|+caption | Proto-Dynic verb template
+|-
+! colspan="6" | conjunct prefixes
+! stem
+! conjunct suffixes
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+| 1
+| 2
+| 3a
+| 3b
+| 4
+| 5
+| 6
+| 7
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+| <small>direct object</small>
+| <small>adverb</small>
+| <small>(converb classifier)</small>
+| <small>converb</small>
+| <small>classifier</small>
+| <small>subject</small>
+| <small>'''stem'''</small>
+| <small>auxiliary</small>
+|}
 ==== Subject and object marking ====
 {| class="wikitable"   style="display: inline-table;"
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 | colspan="2" | ''*s-''
 | colspan="2" | ''*ki-''
+|- style="text-align:center;"
+! Indefinite
+| colspan="2" | ''*a-''
+| colspan="2" | ''*la-''
 |- style="text-align:center;"
 ! Reflexive
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 The third person and fourth person pronominal clitics are used to keep track of multiple third person arguments within discourse, any may also be referred to as the ''third person proximate'' and ''third person obviate'' respectively.  The third person is assigned to the more salient argument, or the argument which has appeared before.
-Third person clitics can be dropped when the third person argument is a part of the same clause.
+==== Classifiers ====
+Classifiers are optional prefixes that affect the [[w:Transitive verb|transitivity]] or [[w:Valency (linguistics)|valency]] of a verb.  There are a number of different classifiers for different categories of verbs.  Some verbs have an inherent transitivity, which can be changed via classifiers, whilst others require a classifier for both their transitive and intransitive forms.
 ==== Conjugation ====