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=== Partial Reduplicaton ===
 
=== Partial Reduplicaton ===
  
=== Transitive/Intransitive Verbs ===
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=== Verb Transitivity ===
  
 
=== Locative-existential clauses ===
 
=== Locative-existential clauses ===

Revision as of 21:51, 3 March 2021

Word Classes

  1. Nouns n
  2. Verbs v
  3. Pronouns prn
  4. Adverbs adv
  5. Prepositions pr
  6. Interjections ij
  7. Numerals num
  8. Conjunctions
  9. Topic markers
  10. Exclamations

Note the absence of adjectives in Biak

Alternations

Verb number/person inflection

Noun Specificity

Alienable Possession

Inalienable Possession

spellrelax

Partial Reduplicaton

Verb Transitivity

Locative-existential clauses