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====Main Verb ==== | ====Main Verb ==== | ||
The main verb is believed to be descended from a verbal noun. The main verb hosts the Inverse Marker ''tā-/ta-'', aspect, and evidential/modal markers. As mentioned earlier, the Inverse and aspect markers may detach from the main verb and attach to a converb, while the modal/evidential suffixes remain tightly bound to the main verb. | The main verb is believed to be descended from a verbal noun. The main verb hosts the Inverse Marker ''tā-/ta-'', aspect, and evidential/modal markers. As mentioned earlier, the Inverse and aspect markers may detach from the main verb and attach to a converb, while the modal/evidential suffixes remain tightly bound to the main verb. | ||
=====Aspect ===== | |||
The verb, in contrast to the copula, encodes aspect with clitics that attach to the end of the word. If a coverb appears, the aspect marker will cliticize to the coverb. Nankôre possesses several aspect markers, as illustrated in the following table: | |||
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! !! Aspect Marker!! Meaning | |||
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! style=""| Perfect | |||
| -Ø|| | |||
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! style=""| Semelfective | |||
| =no|| completed in one single motion/act, e.g. hit | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Simple Imperfect | |||
| =ro|| | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Durative/Repetitive | |||
| =nahoyra, =noyra|| several times | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Habitative | |||
| =(h)osma, =sma|| often | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Factive | |||
| =yosir|| (general truth statement, e.g. "The sun rises in the east") | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Continuative | |||
| =namporo|| to continue | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Inceptive | |||
| =otah|| to begin | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Cessative | |||
| =ciri|| to stop | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Terminative | |||
| =ruykáno|| to finish | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Incipient | |||
| =kara|| about to | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Approximative | |||
| =tontoro|| almost, nearly | |||
|- | |||
! style=""| Frequentative | |||
| =nokori, -(o)nkori|| often | |||
|- | |||
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====Derivation ==== | ====Derivation ==== |
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