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== Nouns == | == Nouns == | ||
Noun morphology, compared to verbal morphology, is relatively lackluster. Hngatil nouns comprise of two main classes: one that are derived from nouns, referred to usually as ''verbal nouns'', and nouns that are not derived from nouns, referred to usually as ''basic nouns''. Verbal nouns are majorly defective in their declension, only inflecting for two numbers and eight cases, the genitive and dative cases having merged. Adjectives and the direct object of any verb take the same conjugation as verbal nouns. Basic nouns, however, inflect for five numbers and eight cases. | Noun morphology, compared to verbal morphology, is relatively lackluster. Hngatil nouns comprise of two main classes: one that are derived from nouns, referred to usually as ''verbal nouns'', and nouns that are not derived from nouns, referred to usually as ''basic nouns''. Verbal nouns are majorly defective in their declension, only inflecting for two numbers and eight cases, the genitive and dative cases having merged. Adjectives and the direct object of any verb take the same conjugation as verbal nouns. Basic nouns, however, inflect for five numbers and eight cases. | ||
The five numbers that basic nouns decline for are the '''Singular''', denoting there is one of the noun, '''Dual''', denoting there is two of the noun, '''Trial''', denoting there is three of the noun, '''Paucal''', showing there is a small group of nouns (the specific number not exact), and the '''Plural''', denoting there is more than three of the noun. | |||
=== Case and number === | === Case and number === | ||
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|''-(a)ni(i)k'i(i)'' | |''-(a)ni(i)k'i(i)'' | ||
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== Syntax == | |||
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