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 ===Coreferentiality===
 There are several situations where the strictly head-marking language tracks coreferentiality, or which agreeing noun a verb or pronoun taking a given agreement refers to.
-====Inverse marking====
-Themsaran has so-called "inverse" verbal affixes that force a particular, marked order of the sentence, rather like the Austronesian trigger system. This marker serves simultaneously to trigger a more focused meaning on the more fronted constituent.
-{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 660px; text-align: center;"
-|+'''Verbal inverse marking'''
-|-
-!|Constituents!!Direct (unless otherwise marked)!!Inverse (forced reading)
-|-
-||VN||VS||VO
-|-
-||NV||SV||OV
-|-
-||VNN||VSO||VOS
-|-
-||NVN||SVO||OVS
-|-
-||NNV||OSV||SOV
-|}
 ====Proximate/obviative affixes====
 The 3rd person, or proximate, object marks foreground or central referents, usually the first one or the most animate/possessing one mentioned soon after it. while the 4th person, or obviative, object refers to background or peripheral referents. The third person and the fourth person combine as 3+4=3, and when parts of a proximate plural is taken out, the first noun phrase to be taken out is the new 3rd person.