Hngatil grammar: Difference between revisions

imported>Photosynthesis bisectors
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# '''Optative''' - used for actions that the speaker wishes, assumes, or hopes to occur
# '''Optative''' - used for actions that the speaker wishes, assumes, or hopes to occur
# '''Presumptive''' - used for actions that are presumed or theorized to happen based on prior evidence, or reasoning - usually has a future implication
# '''Presumptive''' - used for actions that are presumed or theorized to happen based on prior evidence, or reasoning - usually has a future implication
# '''Inferrential''' - used for referring to actions that the speaker has not personally witnessed, and has inferred to have happened based on prior evidence, or reasoning. - usually has a past implication
# '''Inferential''' - used for referring to actions that the speaker has not personally witnessed, and has inferred to have happened based on prior evidence, or reasoning. - usually has a past implication
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+Mood inflection
|+Mood inflection
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|''llat'(a)-''
|''llat'(a)-''
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!Inferrential
!Inferential
|''dbat'(a)-''
|''dbat'(a)-''
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!Solid object
!Solid object
|SO
|SO
| rowspan="2" | ''-(a)typa''
| rowspan="2" | ''-(a)typ(a-)''
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!Slender Flexible object
!Elevated object
|SFO
|EO
| rowspan="2" | ''-(a)ki(i)''
| rowspan="2" | ''-(a)ki(i)(-)''
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|Chair, table, plane, kali, etc.
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!Slender Fixed object
!Slender object
|SFI
|SFI
|''Stem change''
|''Stem change''
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|Rope, flagpole, etc.
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!Load object
!Load object
|LO
|LO
| rowspan="3" |''-(a)pi(i)''
| rowspan="3" |''-(a)pi(i)(-)''
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|Backpack, sack, etc.
|Backpack, sack, etc.
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!Animate object
!Animate object
|AO
|AO
| rowspan="2" |''-(a)k'u(u)''
| rowspan="2" |''-(a)k'u(u)(-)''
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|Kali, human, etc.
|Kali, human, etc.
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There are several aspects that share the same suffix; an example being the stative and gnomic aspects, both being marked by ''-(a)ngmatk.''
There are several aspects that share the same suffix; an example being the stative and gnomic aspects, both being marked by ''-(a)ngmatk.''


=== Irregular verbs ===
=== Irregular and defective verbs ===
 
Many Hngatil verbs, particularly the most common verbs, are irregular and defective in aspects marking.
=== Defective verbs ===


== Nouns ==
== Nouns ==
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!Ergative
!Ergative
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|''-(a)gbu(u)''
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|''-(a)gbi(i)''
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|''-(a)kpi(i)''
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|''-(a)k'i(i)''
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|''-(a)kit'i(i)''
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|''-(a)kpi(i)''
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|''-(a)k'a''
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!Absolutive
!Absolutive
! colspan="4" |∅
! colspan="4" |∅
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|''-(a)typu(u)''
! colspan="2" |∅
! colspan="2" rowspan="1" |∅
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!Genitive
!Genitive
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| colspan="3" |''-(a)bbi(i)''
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |''-(a)gga''
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |''-(a)llu(u)t'a''
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| colspan="1" rowspan="2" |''-(a)pi(i)hla''
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| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |
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!Dative
!Dative
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| colspan="4" |''-(a)t'a''
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|''-p'i(i)kpa''
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!Semblative
!Semblative
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|''da(k)-''
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|''t'a(k)-''
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|''t'u(u)(k)-''
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|''t'a(l)-''
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|''-p'i(i)k'''
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|''-da''
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|''-t'a''
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!Abessive
!Abessive
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|''-(a)gbi(i)r''
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|''-(a)gbi(i)k'''
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|''-(a)kpi(i)k'''
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|''-(a)kpat'''
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|''-(a)gbi(i)''
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| colspan="2" rowspan="1" |''-gbi(i)''
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!Essive
!Essive
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| colspan="3" rowspan="1" |''-(i(i))dda''
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|''-(i(i))ggai(i)''
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|''-(i(i))nga''
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|''-dda''
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|''-gga''
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!Translative
!Translative
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| colspan="4" rowspan="1" |''-(a)na''
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|''-(a)nak'i(i)''
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|''-nak'a''
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|''-ni(i)k'i(i)''
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