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This rule is worth knowing because it is used in other rare instances of Teonaht mutation (which arise when certain words appear out of their customary word order: for instance, when a predicate noun or adjective follows the copula where it should precede--'''lynna vandivar''', "she is a dancer" '''(fandivar)'''. See the page on Syntax for more information. | This rule is worth knowing because it is used in other rare instances of Teonaht mutation (which arise when certain words appear out of their customary word order: for instance, when a predicate noun or adjective follows the copula where it should precede--'''lynna vandivar''', "she is a dancer" '''(fandivar)'''. See the page on Syntax for more information. | ||
=== Gender === | |||
Teonaht once exhibited a morphology of gender, but that has been effaced by time. Nouns and articles do not reflect gender by themselves, whereas pronouns do. Animals, however, have a whole range of gendered categories expressed in an adjective that follows the noun; these vary according to the type of animal but are far from being consistent. | |||
=== Articles === | === Articles === | ||