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A phrase consists of at minimum a nominal format word, which may be preceded by a determiner function word and any number of attributive or appositive format words. Instead of a determiner, the phrase may be preceded by a genitive case phrase. Cases are marked by certain function words following the phrase.
The same attributive format words modify both animate and inanimate nouns.
A clause consists of at minimum a finite, imperative, or copular format word acting as head of the clause. That word may be preceded by argument phrases, oblique phrases, and adverbs. An argument phrase corresponds to a 3rd person head inflection (3) if animate and to an unspecified one (U) if inanimate.
Absolutive, instrumental, and locative case phrases correspond to the core arguments.
| Word | Tag | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Absolutive | Patient, Recipient; theme, actional route | ||
| - | Ins | Instrumental | Agent, Donor, Actor; instrument |
| - | Loc | Locative | Comitative; location |
| - | Ben | Benefactive | beneficiary |
| - | Mal | Malefactive | maleficiary |
| - | Voc | Vocative | identifies addressee |
| - | Gen | Genitive | possessor |
A relative clause is distinguished by the presence of the relative determiner Rel appearing in some phrase. The relative clause is not embedded, but precedes its host clause, which contains the correlative pronoun Cor to mark the role of the phrase in the host clause.
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