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==== Prenominals ==== | ==== Prenominals ==== | ||
Syntactic relationships between nouns and other parts of sentences are signaled by function words before the noun, which have been called prenominals. These function words encode both status (proper or common) and syntactic function (including what adpositions normally encode). The forms are: | Syntactic relationships between nouns and other parts of sentences are signaled by function words before the noun, which have been called prenominals. These function words encode both status (proper or common) and syntactic function (including what adpositions normally encode). The forms are: | ||
{| class="bluetable" | |||
|- | |||
! !! Proper !! Common | |||
|- | |||
! Absolutive | |||
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | a | |||
|- | |||
! Ergative | |||
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | tsa | |||
|- | |||
! Genitive | |||
|| i || e | |||
|- | |||
! Locative | |||
| hi || te | |||
|- | |||
! Dative | |||
| ye || ya | |||
|- | |||
! Ablative | |||
| soo || sowa | |||
|- | |||
! Comitative | |||
| ni || ne | |||
|} | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||