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• Syntax: Introduction
  • Nouns.
  • Verbal syntax.
  • Adjectival syntax.
  • Adverbs.
  • Negative forms
    • Ordinary negatives (Non-future, Non-habitual).
    • Habitual Negative.
      • Past Habitual Negative.
      • Alternative form of Negative Past Habitual.
    • Future Negative.
    • Negative Result Clauses: Verbal Noun + ÇÆÔ×Á anaale
    • Negative simultaneity: Vb È×¾ -aame Vb.
      • Simultaneous negative plus Éç iru : durative negative.
    • Obstinate Negative: Vb. + ¾Ô¥Ø¹¨-õ´â maatteen-nkatu.
      • The Obstinate Negative Embedded
    • The archaic tenseless negative.
  • Interrogatives
    • The `yes-no' question marker suffix È -aa.
    • The question marker prefix Í -e.
  • The reportive marker È£ -aam
  • Quotative Sentences
    • Direct and indirect speech.
    • Intent.
    • Adverbial Participles (AVP).
      • Positive.
      • Negative -aame, aama(l).
    • Adjectival participles.
      • Positive adjectival participles: past or present tense marker plus -a.
      • Negative adjectival participle: È» -aada.
      • Verbal Nouns.
  • WH-interrogatives and suffixes
    • WH-INTERROGATIVES + -um.
    • WH-interrogatives + -oo.
    • WH-interrogatives + aavatu.
    • WH-interrogatives + Ë£ um + NEGATIVE.
  • Conditional
    • Syntactic Conditional: ýá -nnu + aa(l).
    • Negative conditional -aattaa
      • Negative conditional of iru.
    • The conditional plus »ÔØÆ -taanee
    • Concessive.
    • Concessive + -e WORDS.
    • Syntactic Concessive.
    • Negative Concessives.
    • WH-interrogatives plus dubitative Ñ oo
  • Consecutive action
    • Whatever
    • Immediate consecutive action
    • Immediate consecutive with й×Æ odane
    • Verbal Noun and dative.
    • Infinitive for simultaneity.
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