Sixth Linguifex Relay/Scarlet Aban: Difference between revisions

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* The verb argument morphemes (S, A, O) behave as if any morpheme incorporated into the verb itself are part of the lexical meaning of the verb they are modifying and do not occupy valency slots of the verb. For example, a verb with an agent and a direct and indirect object, with the agent and indirect object specified in the verb marking, will syntactically behave as a monovalent verb, where the sole argument will be the semantic direct object.
* The verb argument morphemes (S, A, O) behave as if any morpheme incorporated into the verb itself are part of the lexical meaning of the verb they are modifying and do not occupy valency slots of the verb. For example, a verb with an agent and a direct and indirect object, with the agent and indirect object specified in the verb marking, will syntactically behave as a monovalent verb, where the sole argument will be the semantic direct object.
* The verb g'waa, glossed as "occur", is applied to a stative verb to give an active and causative derivative meaning.
* The verb g'waa, glossed as "occur", is applied to a stative verb to give an active and causative derivative meaning.
* The pronominal morphemes <r> and <buŋ> (1s and 2s respectively) mark the verb as indicative when prepositional, and mark it as hortative when postpositional. Their counterparts <si> and <sïg> only occur postpositionally and mark the verb as indicative. Regardless of the morphemes, prepositional morphemes mark the direct object of a transitive or ergative verb while postpositional morphemes mark the subject of a transitive or ergative verb or the sole argument of an intransitive or ergative verb.
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