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Valian verbs are able to encapsulate pronouns in an agglutinative fashion it is sometimes also possible to follow a word order different from the default SVO if context is deemed sufficient, e.g. if it is known that the person speaking is doing so to another human, then ''taevakanu varra aas'' for what usually is ''aas taevaka varra'' ('Girl, thou consecratest the chalice') becomes a perfectly valid sentence. Needless to say,distinguishing between the many options available for interpretation is one of the more confusing aspect of Valian to the beginner. | Valian verbs are able to encapsulate pronouns in an agglutinative fashion it is sometimes also possible to follow a word order different from the default SVO if context is deemed sufficient, e.g. if it is known that the person speaking is doing so to another human, then ''taevakanu varra aas'' for what usually is ''aas taevaka varra'' ('Girl, thou consecratest the chalice') becomes a perfectly valid sentence. Needless to say,distinguishing between the many options available for interpretation is one of the more confusing aspect of Valian to the beginner. | ||
===Formation of the genitive=== | |||
In Valian, genitive structures are formed syntactically by apposition. It is a process similar to the English construction X of Y (e.g. ''John of France'') or Ancient Hebrew's X-{{sc|constr}} Y (e.g. ''bejt ha-sefer'', where ''bejt'' is the {{sc|constr}} of ''bajit''). | |||
*:rauda Aura, "Hammer of Time" (lit. hammer time) | |||
There is no morphological marking for it, unlike in Old Valian where the genitive was morphologically marked on the possessor by ''-a''; the example above would have been rendered as ''rauda Auraa''. | |||
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