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* two states: absolute and construct. | * two states: absolute and construct. | ||
* three cases: nominative, accusative, and genitive. | * three cases: nominative, accusative, and genitive. | ||
** Some speculate that Proto-Quame originally had an intransitive-transitive alignment. The nominative and accusative may have originally been intransitive and transitive cases respectively, since stative verbs in the 3rd person singular have nominative endings, while eventive verbs in the 3rd person singular have endings similar to accusative endings. | |||
* two numbers: singular and plural. There was also a third number, the collective, formed by reduplication of the first syllable. | * two numbers: singular and plural. There was also a third number, the collective, formed by reduplication of the first syllable. | ||