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===First and third person=== | ===First and third person=== | ||
First and third person are treated as the same category; where disambiguation is needed, an unstressed form of ''it'' "head" is used as a first-person marker after the relevant verb or possessive. | First and third person are treated as the same category; where disambiguation is needed, an unstressed form of ''it'' "head" is used as a first-person marker after the relevant verb or possessive. | ||
===Compounding=== | |||
Compounding is frequent and very productive, but in most words is limited to two roots. Stress in productive compounds shifts left from the last word's original stress, but in many older compounds is either initial or final as a non-compound word of the same part of speech, or have irregular stress. | |||
In some regions productive compounds are not limited to two roots, instead either being limited to three or having no limit. | |||
===Nouns and pronouns=== | ===Nouns and pronouns=== | ||