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* in attributive clauses the head is followed by its [[w:Noun adjunct|atribute]], unless the latter is topicalised; | * in attributive clauses the head is followed by its [[w:Noun adjunct|atribute]], unless the latter is topicalised; | ||
* in [[w:Adpositional phrase|adpositional phrases]] postposition follows its noun; | * in [[w:Adpositional phrase|adpositional phrases]] postposition follows its noun; | ||
* interrogative clauses are signalled by the interrogative particle ''mai'', interrogative pronouns: ''kha'' “who”, ''kai'' “how”, ''ba'' “what”, ''kaima'' “when”, ''baima'' “where”; or the emphatic particle ''ŋé'', which follow the head of the clause: མཾཔཱཡིནཏཾཔཿ་ངྸེ ''mapājintapā-'''ŋé'''?'' “you didn’t go there, did you?”; | * interrogative clauses are signalled by the interrogative particle ''mai'' (Western ''lai''), interrogative pronouns: ''kha'' “who”, ''kai'' “how”, ''ba'' “what”, ''kaima'' “when”, ''baima'' “where”; or the emphatic particle ''ŋé'', which follow the head of the clause: མཾཔཱཡིནཏཾཔཿ་ངྸེ ''mapājintapā-'''ŋé'''?'' “you didn’t go there, did you?”; | ||
* the particle ''tai'' (and its synonym ''lhot'', more typical to the South) are used to set off qoutations, they follow the phrase they modify: ''kyénna-tai cyenikka'' “he said "you are pretty"”. Eastern dialects use a quotative particle ''cai'' instead, which might have been an allomorph of Western ''tai''; | * the particle ''tai'' (and its synonym ''lhot'', more typical to the South) are used to set off qoutations, they follow the phrase they modify: ''kyénna-tai cyenikka'' “he said "you are pretty"”. Eastern dialects use a quotative particle ''cai'' instead, which might have been an allomorph of Western ''tai''; | ||
* the negative particle ''mu/mau'' precedes its modifying noun and attracts possessive prefixes: ངོ'''མུ'''་ཀྱིམཾ ''ŋo'''mu'''-kyima'' “not my house”. When the negative particle acts as a [[w:Predicate (grammar)|predicate]], it follows the noun instead: ངོཀྱིམ མྂ ''ŋokyim '''mau''''' “this isn’t my house”. In the Eastern dialects the negative predicate is substituted with a verbal negative infix, which precedes its noun. | * the negative particle ''mu/mau'' precedes its modifying noun and attracts possessive prefixes: ངོ'''མུ'''་ཀྱིམཾ ''ŋo'''mu'''-kyima'' “not my house”. When the negative particle acts as a [[w:Predicate (grammar)|predicate]], it follows the noun instead: ངོཀྱིམ མྂ ''ŋokyim '''mau''''' “this isn’t my house”. In the Eastern dialects the negative predicate is substituted with a verbal negative infix, which precedes its noun. | ||