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=== Verbal Agreement Case Marking ===
 
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Akachenti's pronominal case agreement system is similar to that of [https://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/sedyl/amerindia/articles/pdf/A_32_10.pdf natlang Kotiria], where argument/slot order initially determined case and marked case eventually permitted free order constrained by topicalization.
 
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::: topic/patientive + <small>VERB ROOT</small> + agentive
 
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indicating a diachronic conditioned merger of the topic and patientive slots. Significantly, this order is only valid for intransitive and transitive verbs. Verbs with more than two referents marked on the verb utilize various hierarchical combinations of person and case marking across all available slots to indicate multiple objects.
 
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The modern accusative-possessive is marked by a glottalic accent vowel in the case of simple markers. This is a reduced form of the original accusative-possessive affix.
 
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The modern patientive-oblique is marked by a raised mid-tone vowel. This may be an actual alternation fallback or a reduced form of an original dative affix. In its marking of relative clauses, there is evidence it may have also reduced from a genitive affix.
 

Revision as of 14:39, 8 August 2017

Verb Classes

Potential verb classes:

  1. Transitive, e.g. "I eat food"
  2. Intransitive, e.g. "I eat"
  3. Causative, e.g. "I want (to eat)"
  4. Indirect, e.g. "I (have) want"
  5. Ditransitive, e.g. "I give them that"
  6. Stative/Adjectival, e.g. "She is beautiful"

The Verbal Template

Slots
1
(req.) 		2
(opt.) 		3
(opt.) 		4
(usu req.) 		5
(opt.) 		6
(req.) 		7
(opt.) 		8
(opt.) 		9
(usu req.)
  1. question particle
  2. topic
  1. light verb
  2. auxiliary verb
  3. modal/numeral prefix
 negation of verb recipient/patient/agent
(if separate from topic) 		incorporated noun/adj./verb verb stem recipient/patient/agent
(in trivalent expressions) 		verb suffix recipient/patient/agent
(if separate from topic)

Slot 1. Question/Topic

Slot 2. Verbal Prefix

Slot 3. Verbal Negation

Slot 4. Pronominal Prefix

Slot 5. Incorporated Stem

Slot 6. Verb Stem

Slot 7. Pronominal Infix

Slot 8. Verbal Suffix

Slot 9. Pronominal Suffix

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