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* AuxVOS, with V a verbal noun (from topic final word order in CWdm) | * AuxVOS, with V a verbal noun (from topic final word order in CWdm) | ||
* Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [this should be a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew] | * Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [this should be a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew] | ||
* | * Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared by Anbirese) | ||
* As in Modern Tseer, marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun | * As in Modern Tseer, marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun | ||
* always using im- or iN- for plurals (this got into Modern Windermere) | * always using im- or iN- for plurals (this got into Modern Windermere) | ||
* construct state marked by a reflex of the CWdm 3sg.m possessive pronoun ''in'' | * construct state marked by a reflex of the CWdm 3sg.m possessive pronoun ''in'' | ||
* Verb tenses work a lot like like in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic or An Yidis | |||
** "in VN" or "on VN" for imperfective aspect unmarked for tense | |||
** "after VN" for perfective aspect | |||
** an auxiliary can be used to mark tense, which is relative to conjunctions like "before": "before (future aux)", "after (past aux)" | |||