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==Features==
==Features==
===Syntactic roles===
PAI appears to have had adpositions that became postpositions and eventually suffixes in Proto-Ash whereas they became prepositions in Ish.
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! PAI
! Proto-Ash
! Ish
|-
| {{ash|*awa ant}},<br />{{ash|*ant awa}}
| valign="top" | → {{ash|*(a)wa-(a)n(t)}} → {{ash|*wa-n}}
| valign="top" | → {{ash|*a(n)t-(a)ɰa}} → {{ash|odo /at-ɰa/}}
|}
This adposition in Proto-Ash became the relational or locative case ending while in Ish it became the indirect object marker. Both reflexes are combined with the distal determiner ("that one") above.


===Deixis===
===Deixis===


The aforementioned distal determiner is another example of common inheritance from PAI shared between the daughter branches alongside its proximal counterpart.
The proximal and distal determiners are an example of common inheritance from PAI shared between the daughter branches.


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