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====Case and Number==== | ====Case and Number==== | ||
Peshpeg's three-way split in its morphological alignment underlies its nominal case-number system. Thus, the case-number system reflects the nominal system's animacy hierarchy. 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. | Peshpeg's three-way split in its morphological alignment underlies its nominal case-number system. Thus, the case-number system reflects the nominal system's animacy hierarchy. 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 in Class I nouns marks direct objects with the submorpheme ''-j-''. The ergative-absolutive system is distinguished by the submorpheme ''-d-'' for ergative arguments. Both Class I and Class II mark plurality with an underlying nasal submorpheme, ''-m-'' in Class I nouns, and ''-n-'' in Class II nouns. Class III nouns bear no number marking, and likewise has zero-marking for distinguishing core arguments. | ||
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| colspan="2" | dorün + DIR.CASE | | colspan="2" | dorün + DIR.CASE | ||
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>The -in allomorph of the Class III suffix is favoured when the preceding phoneme is a palatalized consonant. | <nowiki>*</nowiki>The ''-in'' allomorph of the Class III suffix is favoured when the preceding phoneme is a palatalized consonant. | ||
<br/><sup>†</sup>Not the expected ''-rinlak/-rünlak'' | <br/><sup>†</sup>Not the expected ''-rinlak/-rünlak'' | ||