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Verbs in Nankôre, as in many other languages, can perform operations to alter the argument structure of a clause. Agents and Patients may be demoted from their core status, Patients may be promoted to a derived Subject, and Obliques may be promoted to a core role. Nankôre has a several auxiliary verbs that perform operations similar to passivation, antipassivation, and applicativized. In a language that has virtually no adpositions or case markings on the NPs, valence operations these auxiliary verbs, particularly the passivation and antipassivation auxiliaries, are exploited to convey spatial or directional information that case affixes or adpositions perform in other languages. The animacy system interacts with these auxiliary verbs, called ''valence auxiliaries'' in the linguistic literature of Nankôre. | |||
As an example, the auxiliary ''kohán'' passivizes the clause, resulting in a one-argument clause containing only the logical Patient. Since there is only one core argument, the need for inverse marking no longer exists, and in fact the presence of both the passive auxiliary ''kohán'' and the inverse marker ''tā''' in the same sentence is ungrammatical. The same is true for the antipassive auxilliary ''norhe''/''norhâ''', that is the logical Patient is deleted leaving only the agent, and so once again, the presence of the inverse ''tā''' is ungrammatical. When either the Agent or the Patient has been deleted by the passive or antipassive auxiliaries, one thing that must be noted is that the demoted arguments are fully deleted. In other languages that have passives and/or antipassives, demoted core arguments need not be deleted, in fact in many languages the demoted argument may still be retained in the sentence, but this time as an oblique argument. Such is not the case in Nankôre; the former core argument cannot appear in the sentence. | |||
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