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*It is pro-drop. | *It is pro-drop. | ||
*Head-directionality is mixed. | *Head-directionality is mixed. | ||
*It has a simple grammatical gender system of animate-inanimate, but the much more complex Proto-Tsimulh noun class system has vestiges in noun pluralization | *It has a simple grammatical gender system of animate-inanimate, but the much more complex Proto-Tsimulh noun class system has vestiges in noun pluralization. | ||
==Todo== | ==Todo== | ||
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:''I know that you went out with the man yesterday.'' | :''I know that you went out with the man yesterday.'' | ||
Some adpositions must be used with thw genitive case. | |||
*''ef'' = in | *''ef'' (+ gen.) = in | ||
*''tə'' = accusative | *''tə'' (+ nom.) = accusative | ||
==="Have" construction=== | ==="Have" construction=== | ||
Swuntsim has no verb for "have"; instead the word ''djec'' 'with' is used. | Swuntsim has no verb for "have"; instead the word ''djec'' 'with' is used. | ||