Phrases
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Phrases
NPs
- Head-final, excepting reduplication
- Marked for case with case marking prepositions
- Decline for: definiteness (left), number (right)
VPs
- Head-initial, excepting truth conjugation
- Conjugate for: ‘truth’ (left), mood (1st right), aspect (2nd right), tense (3rd right)
APs
- Can function as modifiers for NPs or as predicators (as a verb: to be x)
- Head-initial, excepting truth conjugation
- Conjugate for: ‘truth’ (left), Mood (1st right), Aspect (2nd right), Tense (3rd right)
All phrases can become the topic via the topic marker. Topic marker nominalises verbs and adjectives and is always the leftmost morpheme.