Grammatical Groups of Verb Makers

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Rule 26: Verb makers and their grammatical groups.

Grammatical Groups of Verb Extenders

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Rule 27: The majority of verb extenders are neutral with respect to the five groups presented above. They can be added to every kind of verb stems. The resulting stems have the same grammatical properties as the preceding stems.

Grammatical Groups of Noun Makers

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Rule 28: Some noun makers are added to verb stems that can take a one-person ending (but not to verb stems that must take a two-person ending).

Branching Structures

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Rule 29: Additional branching structures to help visualize grammatical relations.

Productive Versus Non-Productive Postbase

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Rule 30: Distinction between productive and non-productive postbase

Common Productive Postbases in Nunavimmiutitut

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Rule 31: A list of common productive postbases

Tails

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Rule 32: A list of word tails

Exclamative Endings

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Rule 33: There are two frequent exclamative endings in Nunavik Inuktitut. They are peculiar because they express neither a case nor a mood.

Demonstrative Pronouns

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Rule 34: Demonstrative pronouns serve to point out the persons or things spoken of. They can replace nouns or combine with nouns.

Locative Pronouns

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Rule 35: Locative pronouns refer to the location where the process expressed by the verb takes place.
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