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== Common features == | == Common features == | ||
* 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") [ | * Verbal nouns treated ergatively like in Irish ("my love to/by-him" means "his love for me") [a Standard Average Talman feature, opposite of SAE or Hebrew/JBA] | ||
* Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared to some extent by Anbirese) | * Large but closed class of auxiliaries, e.g. for tense marking, or things like "marbeh lisloach" 'forgives often' (shared to some extent by Anbirese) | ||
* As in Modern Tseer, marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun | * As in Modern Tseer, marks pluractionality by pluralizing the verbal noun | ||