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Verb Valency Voice Tense Aspect Mood | Verb Valency Voice Tense Aspect Mood | ||
Only Valency-changing suffix is Causative *pʰəɟ. Only | Only Valency-changing suffix is Causative *pʰəɟ. Only Mood is Conditional *kʰaca. Two voices are reconstructed: Passive *ənəɟi and Reflexive (also known by Naktap-Semi linguistsas "Middle") *aba. Tense system is similar to those found in it's descendants: | ||
* Recent Past: *aɡətʰ | * Recent Past: *aɡətʰ | ||
* Distant Past: *muɡus | * Distant Past: *muɡus | ||
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* Hodiernal (Today): *kicʰi | * Hodiernal (Today): *kicʰi | ||
* Crastinal Future (Tomorrow): *kibi | * Crastinal Future (Tomorrow): *kibi | ||
There is imperfective *agida and Habitual *damagu. | |||
Negation is formed by adding ɟu and is mostly used for adjectives and verbs. In Naktap it's used in verbs to form inverted meaning, like "to tie" to "to untie" and particle being used before the word else. In Semi for inverted meanings descendant of *ɟuden is reconstruced, probably related to *bemibden "front, face" | Negation is formed by adding ɟu and is mostly used for adjectives and verbs. In Naktap it's used in verbs to form inverted meaning, like "to tie" to "to untie" and particle being used before the word else. In Semi for inverted meanings descendant of *ɟuden is reconstruced, probably related to *bemibden "front, face" | ||