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→Incorporation: Another outdated explanation fixed, plus a different example added.
(→Syntax: Need to rewrite this whole section but here's a more correct summary for now. Nothing below is strictly wrong, but not a good way/order to explain Ash syntax.) |
(→Incorporation: Another outdated explanation fixed, plus a different example added.) |
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====Incorporation==== | ====Incorporation==== | ||
The number of unmarked nominal arguments that a verb can take depends on its valency. There are other ways to introduce more referents, one of which is to incorporate the third nominal into the verb. | |||
{{gloss | {{gloss | ||
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However this is limited to very few nouns and is more of a derivational process than a grammatical one. | However this is limited to very few nouns and is more of a derivational process than a grammatical one. On the other hand, the fact that the main verb phrase is separate from the topic (or classifier) phrase means that it's possible to use one of its argument slots, even when intransitive, as a kind of subject with semantics much like that of an incorporated noun. | ||
{{gloss | |||
|phrase={{ash|enya ga bahba ảyıgaa e}} | |||
|gloss=younger_sibling=CLF.TOP dog REFL-sound.RLS=EXP | |||
|translation=my sibling barks like a dog | |||
}} | |||
The above main verb phrase can be taken to mean something like "dog-sounds (oneself)" or "dog-calls (oneself)". | |||
====Converbialisation==== | ====Converbialisation==== | ||