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Additionally, there is an Intimate Vocative and seven basic Oblique case clitics used to mark non-core NP arguments. | Additionally, there is an Intimate Vocative and seven basic Oblique case clitics used to mark non-core NP arguments. The Intimate Vocative is chiefly reserved to family and close friends in more traditional societies. In more urban societies, chiefly among the City Speakers, adults may use it among colleagues and coworkers. Children and teens typically employ it with same-aged or younger peers. | ||
The Intimate Vocative has several allomorphs: | The Intimate Vocative has several allomorphs: | ||
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Honorific vocatives also exist. The most often used are ''behet'', used to address elders, and ''innāt'', used by older people to address young adults outside their social groups. These may be joined to their head nouns in a ''min'' construction, or as clitics, ''=behet'' and ''=(i)nnāt(u)''. The clitic ''=behet'' often does not trigger morphophonemic alternations, e.g. ''Urya'''<u>tb</u>'''ehet'' "Madame Uryat" (as opposed to expected ''Urya<u>'''pt'''</u>ehet''). | |||
====Oblique Cases==== | ====Oblique Cases==== | ||