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==Nouns== | ==Nouns== | ||
Nouns in Awe are not inflected to mark case, their grammatical function is instead usually indicated by word order or periphrastic means. | |||
===Animacy=== | ===Animacy=== | ||
Awe lacks a grammatical gender distinction but animacy is an important category. The animacy of can be seen in their corresponding personal pronouns. They are sorted in a three-tier animacy scale. The first level of this hierarchy is "human", the second "animate" and the third "inanimate". The animacy hierarchy also disprefers inanimate nouns as the subject of verbs and, to a lesser extent, animate nouns. | Awe lacks a grammatical gender distinction but animacy is an important category. The animacy of can be seen in their corresponding personal pronouns. They are sorted in a three-tier animacy scale. The first level of this hierarchy is "human", the second "animate" and the third "inanimate". The animacy hierarchy also disprefers inanimate nouns as the subject of verbs and, to a lesser extent, animate nouns. | ||
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===Pluralisation=== | ===Pluralisation=== | ||
Awe nouns are marked as plural by reduplication. There are six reduplication | Awe nouns are marked as plural by reduplication. There are six reduplication patterns. | ||
#Reduplication of the final syllable of the world | |||
#Reduplication of the final syllable of the world with tonal modification | |||
#Reduplication of the word-final vowel with an added glottal stop | |||
#Reduplication of the vowel of the final syllable | |||
#Reduplication of the vowel of the final syllable with a change in tone | |||
#Reduplication of the second element of a long vowel | |||
Uncountable nouns, such as "water", are forbidden from being marked for plurality and no nouns are pluralised (with the exception of ''pluralia tantum'') when used with quantifiers, distributives or numerals. | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||