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=====Final vowel has breathy or tense voice===== For nouns where the vowel of the last syllable has breathy or tense voice, the situation is more complicated. They all take ergative suffixes of the

...opened the door".They also take infixes to indicate pronominal objects and voice changes (which is conflated with aspect marking). As well as this, they tak breathy voice on the final vowel of the base, and changing the vowel quality in

...the reflexive nor the reciprocal may occur in the subject position and the reciprocal cannot occur with a singular subject. In the list provided below the first *Reciprocal ''-e-'', ''-y-''

...of an independent clause. Non-finite verbs cannot be inflected for TAM or Voice, but can be inflected for Volition, Mirativity and Evidentiality. Of all th ==Voice==

Active voice is the standard in main clauses but never occures in relative clauses. Anti-passive voice raises the Agent to a Subject status. It is grammaticly neccisery in Relat

...ad; this is however only a matter of traditional terminology as the common voice of interior verbs is unmarked, and therefore exactly the same as the patien ...ng intransitive counterparts of transitive verbs, middle voice, reflexive, reciprocal, stative (and therefore all adjectival verbs), lack of volition, and indepe

...fashion according to the following principle: '''stem''' + '''mode''' + '''voice'''. ====Voice====

===Voice and valency=== ...(grammar)#Middle|middle]], [[w:Passive voice|passive]] and [[w:Antipassive voice|antipassive]] voices reduce its valency. For increasing the valency of a ve

| {{sc|act}} || [[w:grammatical voice|active voice]], [[role and reference grammar|actor role]] | {{sc|antip, ap}} || [[w:antipassive voice|antipassive voice]]

-mi, -mbi - These are the passive suffixes used with the passive voice. They represent the "by..." construct.  Slot 3: Aspect-Intensity-Voice

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| Reciprocal || N/A || /ˈɕaⁿkfə/ (HL) [ˈɕǽŋkfə̀] || /ˈtəʔʎə/ (HL) [ˈtɪ The reciprocal patientive pronoun is used where English would say "each other" or "one ano

| Voice = Yes ...al genders. There are also two numbers and conjugations occur according to voice, mood, number, tense and aspect using various affixes.

*/h/ is pronounced [ɦ] before a vowel with breathy voice. ...phonation contrast on stressed syllables, between breathy voice and tense voice. There are many minimal pairs that contrast this e.g. /baˈhɨ̤ɴdɨ/ - "l

...depend on the dialect), pronouns marked by verbal prefixes, a reciprocal voice marked by a reduplicative prefix, a large number of grammatical moods, and

...ation of the verb is largely carried out with suffixes to indicate aspect, voice, subject and object. The order of elements is fixed in the following ways: ...tyle="width: 100px;" | Causative <br /> ''-əm-'' ||style="width: 100px;" | Voice <br /> Marker || style="width: 100px;" | Mood <br /> Marker ||style="width:

!Reciprocal ("each other") *'''STEM'''/(TAM & voice ablaut)

...glish with sentence pairs such as "he sat down" and "he sat himself down." Reciprocal and [[w:Autocausative verb|autocausative]] verbs also belong to this catego

...ishes words with harsh voice (marked with a tilde e.g. /a̰/), from breathy voice (marked with a pair of dots either above or below the vowel e.g. /a̤/ or / ...has Low Tone on the first syllable and High Tone on the second (with harsh voice).

...lexive or reciprocal suffixes merge: ''-sy'' for reflexive and ''-ry'' for reciprocal; these two suffixes never merge with the stem themselves ''tak-sy-∅-u → ...It includes three suffixes: [[w:Preterite|preterite]], ''-n'' [[w:Passive voice|passive]] ''-uk'', [[w:Causative|causative]] ''-(i)da'', the latter of whic