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Thanks to the grammatical cases word order was probably somewhat free in PAI, reflected by the resulting differences in word order in the daughter branches as they solidified their own word order in different ways as the case endings collapsed. Ash settled on auxiliary-noun-verb whereas Ish settled on verb-auxiliary-noun.
Thanks to the grammatical cases word order was probably somewhat free in PAI, reflected by the resulting differences in word order in the daughter branches as they solidified their own word order in different ways as the case endings collapsed. Ash settled on auxiliary-noun-verb whereas Ish settled on verb-auxiliary-noun.


It is possible that Ash reflects the original trend and that Ish verb-auxiliary constructions were in fact compounds as noun-auxiliary forms would also develop, eroding the distinction between nouns and verbs apart from word order. Another fact in favour of this analysis is that Proto-Ash seems to have had verb ending derived from PAI {{ash|*-(a)r}} while Ish does not reflect this and may have attached roots directly to the auxiliaries, although the ending may also have been irregularly eroded in this weak position.
The auxiliary verbs appear to have been used with a kind of participle ending in {{ash|*-er}}.


A sentence in PAI may thus have looked as follows:
A sentence in PAI may thus have looked as follows:


<div style="float: left">
{{gloss
{{gloss
|phrase={{ash|*qeka te kaw-ar}}
|phrase={{ash|*qeka te kaw-er}}
|gloss=AUX.DIR water.PAT whirl-INF
|gloss=AUX.DIR water.PAT whirl-PTCP
|translation=stirs water
|translation=stirs water
}}
}}
</div>
<div style="float: left">
{{gloss
|phrase={{ash|*kaw-er qeka te}}
|gloss=whirl-PTCP AUX.DIR water.PAT
|translation=stirs water
}}
</div>
<div style="clear: both"></div>
It seems Ash preferred the first syntax while Ish settled on the second.


==Vocabulary==
==Vocabulary==
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