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2) External sandhi only occurs between words within the same clause.
2) External sandhi only occurs between words within the same clause.


3) Essentially, any juncture between adjacent words involving word-final consonants or vowels or word-initial consonants or vowels are treated as if it was a consonant or vowel cluster within a word.
3) Between a word-final consonant and a word-initial consonant, an epenthetic /i/ is inserted.
 
4) Between a word-final vowel and a word-initial vowel, an epenthetic /ŋ/ is inserted.


==Morphology==
==Morphology==
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3) Adnominal demonstrative suffices are rarely used with core arguments except for emphasis.
3) Adnominal demonstrative suffices are rarely used with core arguments except for emphasis.


4) The demonstrative suffices are displayed in the table below:
4) The adnominal demonstrative suffices are displayed in the table below:


{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
|'''Distance'''||'''Abbreviation'''||'''Locus Of Application'''||'''Person'''||'''Demonstrative Suffix
|'''Distance'''||'''Abbreviation'''||'''Locus Of Application'''||'''Adnominal Demonstrative Suffix
|-
|-
| Proximal|| PROX||Near speaker||3rd|| -tken
| Proximal|| PROX||Near speaker|| -in
|-
|-
|Medial||MED||Near hearer||4th||-pken
|Medial||MED||Near hearer||-uk
|-
|-
|Distal||DIST||Away from speaker and hearer||5th||-lken
|Distal||DIST||Away from speaker and hearer||-at
|}
|}


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|}


4) Topicalised A or O arguments directly follow the verb.
4) Topicalised A or O arguments are fronted to before the verb.


5) The S arguments of intransitive verbs never mark topic as they are either the topic or an X argument is elevated to topic.
5) The S arguments of intransitive verbs never mark topic as they are either the topic or an X argument is elevated to topic.


6) Topicalised X argument phrases are fronted to before the verb.
6) Topicalised X argument phrases are fronted to before the verb.
7) Relativised verbs may not have topicalised arguments.


====Mood and Modality====
====Mood and Modality====
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==Syntax==
==Syntax==
===Constituent order===
===Constituent order===
1) The canonical word order of Avalonian is VSOX. This is detailed as follows:
verb phrase + agent phrase or subject phrase + object phrase + oblique phrase
2) Topicalisation or wh-fronting may front one of the agent , the subject, the object or the oblique phrases to before the verb.
===Noun phrase===
===Noun phrase===
===Verb phrase===
===Verb phrase===
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|'''English'''||'''Avalonian'''
|'''English'''||'''Avalonian'''
|-
|-
|amber ||warhu
|amber ||verhu
|-
|-
|apple||hakar
|apple||hakar
|-
|-
|automobile ||harpat
|automobile ||karpat
|-
|-
|Avalonian Isles ||Telku
|Avalonian Isles ||Telku
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|Avalonian Penny ||tenar
|Avalonian Penny ||tenar
|-
|-
|Avalonian Pound (currency)||līrhu
|Avalonian Pound (currency)||lirhu
|-
|-
|Avalonians ||kammir
|Avalonians ||kammir
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|finger-ring||nakha
|finger-ring||nakha
|-
|-
|fire ||ghārhu
|fire, flames ||qhārhu
|-
|-
|flower ||vetta
|flower ||lvetta
|-
|-
|foot (anatomy)||īhak
|foot (anatomy)||īhak
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|-
|-
|road||vige
|road||vige
|-
|rock||karra
|-
|-
|room||kanra
|room||kanra
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|-
|-
|kill||utpa
|kill||utpa
|-
|know||iktē
|-
|-
|laugh||lalha
|laugh||lalha
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