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====Case====
====Case====
Six postpositional morphemes have been identified.  They were originally classified by Schumann as clitics, whereas Iyyaħmi has convincingly argued for their status as affixes, based on statistical frequencies of certain anomalies in the litigants' use of the Minhast orthography.  This article follows Iyyaħmi's classification, as this has now become the prevailing position of Vadists today:
Six postpositional morphemes have been identified.  They were originally classified by Schumann as clitics, whereas Iyyaħmi has convincingly argued for their status as affixes, based on statistical frequencies of certain anomalies in the litigants' use of the Minhast orthography.  This article follows Iyyaħmi's classification, as this has now become the prevailing position of Vadists today.  Note that the case endings trigger mutations in any clitic or word that follows it:


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! Case
! Case
! Postposition
! Postposition
! Fortition<br/> Triggered
! Lenition<br/> Triggered
|-
|-
! Genitive
! Genitive
| -na
| -na
| defricativization
|
|-
|-
! Dative-Benefactive
! Dative-Benefactive
| -li
| -li
|
| palatalization <br/>fricativization (l -> ɫ)
|-
|-
! Ablative
! Ablative
| -ta
| -ta
| voicing
|
|-
|-
! Locative
! Locative
| -éva
| -éva
| voicing
|
|-
|-
! Instrumental
! Instrumental
| -eta
| -eta
|
| palatalization
|-
|-
! Comitative
! Comitative
| -kalí
| -kalí
| voicing
|
|}
|}


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