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Nahónda lacks adpositions and | Nahónda utilizes verb stacking for a variety of purposes. A clause containing the head verb is followed by one or more modifier verbs for various morphosyntactic processes that would otherwise be handled by verbal inflection as in other polysynthetic languages, case systems, or independent particles. | ||
As was mentioned earlier, Nahónda lacks both adpositions and applicatives to indicate grammatical relations<ref>Aka theta-roles</ref>, both of which its relative Minhast possesses. Nahónda employs verb stacking in lieu of adpositional marking and applicativization to specify grammatical relations. Verb stacking may also be employed to convey various adverbial meanings. | |||
In Nahónda, the clause containing the verb head, i.e. the "main verb", precedes the modifiers<ref>Interestingly, the order of dependent verbs mirrors the placement of verb affixes in the Eskaleut languges.</ref>. This is an unusual feature, as most(??) languages that employ verb stacking place the modifying verb before its head. Placement of the dependents appear to be motivated by scopal considerations. The dependents are also are unmarked for TAM, and person marking is null, i.e. the dependents take third person singular marking; instead, the dependents inherit their person and TAM marking from the main verb. | |||
An example of verb stacking to convey an Allative relation follows: | |||
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The following table contains the most commonly used verbs in serialization constructions. | |||
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