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==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||
Verbs display consonant gradation based on tense and subject agreement. The predesinential consonant is unvoiced resonant/aspirated plosive in the present, and changing this to voiced resonant/unaspirated plosive in the jussive or past tense: (arlí /ar̥ɬi/: "I set up, prepare (transitive)"; arli /arli/: "that I may prepare" | Verbs display consonant gradation based on tense and subject agreement. The predesinential consonant is unvoiced resonant/aspirated plosive in the present, and changing this to voiced resonant/unaspirated plosive in the jussive or past tense: (''arlí'' /ar̥ɬi/: "I set up, prepare (transitive)"; ''arli'' /arli/: "that I may prepare") | ||
==Split ergativity== | ==Split ergativity== | ||