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In Aryan, personal enclitics are positioned after the first word of a proposition (Wackernagel's Law) | In Aryan, personal enclitics are positioned after the first word of a proposition (Wackernagel's Law) | ||
the verb either starts or ends the clause... tendence to follow SOV | |||
*the finite verb loses accent in an independent clause, except when in first position (always has accent in dependent clause) | |||
*absolute construction | |||
*subject is ommitted | |||
*na pʰaírīt mai | |||
*pʰaírīt mai na? | |||
h<sub>5</sub>ígōm, mayás, mai | |||
_(negation=subject/int.pronoun/accented verb)-_()-_(unaccented verb) | |||
The most comprehensive summary available on PIE morphosyntax was written by Matthias Fritz in Indo-European Linguistics (Michael Meier-Brügger, 2003), pp. 238-276. | |||
Winfred Philipp Lehmann’s Proto-Indo-European Syntax (1974) | |||
-ōm/mi | |||
-āṓm/-mā | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||