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| gloss = yesterday. evening-<small>LOC.SG</small>. temple-<small>DAT.SG</small>. <small>1SG.DIR</small>. walk.<small>MULTIDIR.PAST.IND-EXP-1SG.PATIENT.EXTERIOR</small>. | | gloss = yesterday. evening-<small>LOC.SG</small>. temple-<small>DAT.SG</small>. <small>1SG.DIR</small>. walk.<small>MULTIDIR.PAST.IND-EXP-1SG.PATIENT.EXTERIOR</small>. | ||
| translation = Yesterday [in the] evening I went to the temple on foot. | | translation = Yesterday [in the] evening I went to the temple on foot. | ||
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====Epiphrasis==== | |||
Epiphrasis (''prīkitās'') is the main syntactic change to the main constituent order. Epiphrastic triggered arguments are mostly limited to the literary language, while other epiphrastic arguments are quite common in everyday speech: | |||
{{Gloss | |||
| phrase = lili ladragyale pūnu, lilyā glūkam no. | |||
| gloss = <small>1SG.DIR</small>. inn-<small>LOC.SG</small>. work-<small>EXP-IND.PRES.1SG.EXTERIOR.PATIENT</small>. <small>1SG.GEN.DIR</small>. female's_brother.<small>DIR.SG</small>. and. | |||
| translation = I work at the inn, and my brother too. | |||
}} | |||
{{Gloss | |||
| phrase = pāmvyu naviṣyu mešute, ānotē phēcamu no. | |||
| gloss = three-<small>ACC</small>. book-<small>ACC.SG</small>. see-<small>EXP-IND.PRES.1SG.EXTERIOR-AGENT</small>. lie_on-<small>EXP-IND.PRES.3SG.EXTERIOR.PATIENT</small>. cat-<small>ACC.SG</small>. and. | |||
| translation = I see the three books, as well as the cat lying on them. | |||
}} | }} | ||