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# direct case: marking the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object. | # direct case: marking the syntactic subject. The verb's voice may promote the direct object to the syntactic subject, or it may promote the indirect object. | ||
# indirect case: marking the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient). | # indirect case: marking the most significant argument that is not the subject (the non-subject agent or the non-subject patient). | ||
# genitive case | # genitive case: As in Arabic, the genitive case is used for both possessors and prepositional complements. | ||
Proto-Irenesian syntax is VSO and head-initial, but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case. | Proto-Irenesian syntax is VSO and head-initial, but with some tendency to be topic-prominent (unlike Goidelic). Here S is the syntactic subject marked with the direct case. | ||