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 ===Lexical Categories===
-Wistanian has five traditional lexical categories (parts of speech): the noun ('''davagg'''), the verb ('''anai'''), the modifier ('''yigbizaun'''), the particle ('''mauvaldul'''), and the honorofics ('''garajil''').
+Wistanian has four traditional lexical categories (parts of speech): the noun ('''davagg'''), the verb ('''anai'''), the particle ('''mauvaldul'''), and the honorofics ('''garajil''').
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 | style="text-align: center; font-style:italic;" | anai
 | Any word that takes on verbal morphology.
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-! style="text-align: center;" | Modifiers
-| style="text-align: center; font-style:italic;" | yigbizaun
-| Any word that describes or specifies another word.
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 | A polite title used with many proper nouns.
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-Some scholars argue that there are more parts of speech. For example,'''wi''' and '''igza''' are arguably more semantically fit to be postpositions. However, they are treated like modifiers morphologically, and therefore labeled as such. Relativizers '''va''', '''na''', '''ggaun''', and '''ddal''' could possibly constitute their own part of speech since they do act slightly differently than most particles and carry both a semantic and grammatical meaning.
-Nouns include colors, numbers, and possessive pronouns, therefore they are never treated as modifiers. In order to use them to modify a noun, one must use the relativizer particle '''va'''.
- '''alalyi dari va din.'''
- alali-i   dari '''va      din'''.
- run  -PFV boy  '''COP.REL three'''.
- "The three boys ran."
 ===Word Order===