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Lastly, Class III nouns, which occupy the lowest level in the animacy hierarchy, take no marking for case or number. Nouns falling in this class include certain body parts, most plants, mass nouns, inanimate objects, and abstract nouns. | Lastly, Class III nouns, which occupy the lowest level in the animacy hierarchy, take no marking for case or number. Nouns falling in this class include certain body parts, most plants, mass nouns, inanimate objects, and abstract nouns. | ||
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Peshpeg displays a three-way split in its morphological alignment, reflecting the nominal system's animacy hierarchy. The nominal class system follows a nominative-accusative pattern among Class I nouns, an ergative-absolutive pattern in Class II nouns, and a direct alignment in its Class III nouns. The nominative-accusative pattern marks direct objects with the submorpheme ''-j-''. The ergative-absolutive system is distinguished by the submorpheme ''-d-'' for ergative arguments. The direct alignment system has zero-marking on all core arguments, and makes no number distinction at all. | Peshpeg displays a three-way split in its morphological alignment, reflecting the nominal system's animacy hierarchy. The nominal class system follows a nominative-accusative pattern among Class I nouns, an ergative-absolutive pattern in Class II nouns, and a direct alignment in its Class III nouns. The nominative-accusative pattern marks direct objects with the submorpheme ''-j-''. The ergative-absolutive system is distinguished by the submorpheme ''-d-'' for ergative arguments. The direct alignment system has zero-marking on all core arguments, and makes no number distinction at all. | ||
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| translation = Obedience outweighs all (other) virtues. | | translation = Obedience outweighs all (other) virtues. | ||
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Plurality is marked on Class I and II nouns with a suffix beginning with nasal, ''-m-'' for Class I nouns, and ''-n-'' for Class II nouns. Number marking in Class III nouns is neutralized. | |||
===Pronouns=== | ===Pronouns=== | ||