Verbs of movement
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Goal and source of movement are marked with locative cases on nouns. They occur as oblique arguments, since movement verbs are all intransitive. A locative argument can be made into a subject if the verb receives a middle voice marker.
The following are the directional suffixes:
Finite | Relative | Irrealis non-finite | Realis non-finite | |
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General | is | i | ig | ŋu |
VEN | mes | me | meg | ŋe |
AND | us | ii | ug | ŋu |
Return | nnos | nni | nnog | ŋo |
Go and return | pus | pii | pug | ŋpu |
Come and return | mpes | mpe | mpeg | ŋpe |
Here are two examples with vowel and consonant ending verb roots.
▼ Verb mii- to walk
▼ Verb ·ok- to reach, to arrive
▼ Verb s-, to go
▼ Verb: ŋub- to run
▼ Verb kaan- to fly
Verbs of movement form a special class in Deinau. They receive a suffix that shows if the movement was coming, going, returning, etc. This suffixes come from verb roots that have become suffixes. They have different non-finite forms sometimes.✎ Edit Article ✖ Delete Article
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