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Tulvan is a mostly analytical language, but some remnants of an older case system still remain, for example, in the accusative of nouns. Both pronouns and nouns are inflected for accusative, there's also an adjectival prefix i- to form adjectives from nouns and pronouns. In the case of pronouns they serve to create the possessive adjectives for each person. | Tulvan is a mostly analytical language, but some remnants of an older case system still remain, for example, in the accusative of nouns. Both pronouns and nouns are inflected for accusative, there's also an adjectival prefix '''i-''' to form adjectives from nouns and pronouns. In the case of pronouns they serve to create the possessive adjectives for each person. | ||
The accusative is used in nouns to mark the direct object of a verb. The mark of the accusative in Tulvan is the affix '''-u'''. It can sometimes behave as a suffix and sometimes as a prefix. This phenomenon is called ''allotaxy'', and is phonetically conditioned by the letter in which the previous word ends or the next word begins with, wether it is a consonant or a vowel to avoid a combination of C-C or V-V. | The accusative is used in nouns to mark the direct object of a verb. The mark of the accusative in Tulvan is the affix '''-u'''. It can sometimes behave as a suffix and sometimes as a prefix. This phenomenon is called ''allotaxy'', and is phonetically conditioned by the letter in which the previous word ends or the next word begins with, wether it is a consonant or a vowel to avoid a combination of C-C or V-V. | ||