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Yakvallat morphemes fall into the following classes: | Yakvallat morphemes fall into the following classes: | ||
1. Particles | 1. Particles: | ||
These do not bear any inflection, have little semantic content and comprise such things as temporal or locative adverbs, conjunctions, interjections and anything else that isn't a root. | These do not bear any inflection, have little semantic content and comprise such things as temporal or locative adverbs, conjunctions, interjections and anything else that isn't a root. | ||
2. Roots | 2. Roots: | ||
These do bear inflection and contain much of the semantic content of an utterance. Roots are divided into nouns and verbs. Nouns are further divided into animate and inanimate categories, verbs into transitive and intransitive categories. | These do bear inflection and contain much of the semantic content of an utterance. Roots are divided into nouns and verbs. Nouns are further divided into animate and inanimate categories, verbs into transitive and intransitive categories. | ||
3. Stem: | |||
A stem is any given sequence of root plus following suffixes. | |||
4. Suffixes: | |||
These either comprise inflection or modify the semantic content of a root or stem. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||