Verbs and Prepositions
Prototypical verbs and prototypical prepositions exist along a cline with verbs at the start, prepositions at the end, and multicategoried word types in the middle:
- forms inflected with the Subject prefixes which function syntactically only as predicates in sentences
- forms not inflected with the Subject prefixes which syntactically function only as predicates in sentences (the uninflected verbs discussed below in verbs)
- forms potentially exhibiting Subject agreement inflection which function syntactically as both predicates in sentences and in serial constructions (the prepositional verbs discussed below)
- forms never exhibiting inflection and which function syntactically only as prepositions
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