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==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||
A Semitic-style shift? or something close to Hittite? | A Semitic-style shift? or something close to Hittite? | ||
Ablaut is very productive in Quibbertoot and has been subject to a lot of analogy -- some verbs have ablauting vowels which historically come from vowels in prefixes. | |||
===Evidentiality=== | ===Evidentiality=== | ||
Quibbertoot has a complex system of evidential and modal particles which are always placed at the beginning of the sentence. This is a relic of VSO order in proto-Quibbertoot. | Quibbertoot has a complex system of evidential and modal particles which are always placed at the beginning of the sentence. This is a relic of VSO order in proto-Quibbertoot. | ||