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Circumstantial clauses, also known as Simultaneous clauses or Concurrent clauses, involve a clause chain of at least two separate clauses. According to the Minhast Language Academy, which oversees the standardization of MSM, the clauses that make up the Circumstantial clause require that the first clause is followed by another clause marked with a Preposed-''wa'' construction, consisting of the particle ''šian'' + ''wa='' + the following clause containing the simultaneous event or state. This structure is governed by the S/O pivot, so if 3rd person arguments with the same gender and number serve as core arguments for both clauses but are ''not'' co-referent and context cannot disambiguate the roles of the core arguments, the latter clause must explicitly indicate that, either by mentioning the core arguments by name or by a proxy noun. If context allows, the non-coreferent arguments may still be dropped. | Circumstantial clauses, also known as Simultaneous clauses or Concurrent clauses, involve a clause chain of at least two separate clauses. According to the Minhast Language Academy, which oversees the standardization of MSM, the clauses that make up the Circumstantial clause require that the first clause is followed by another clause marked with a Preposed-''wa'' construction, consisting of the particle ''šian'' + ''wa='' + the following clause containing the simultaneous event or state. This structure is governed by the S/O pivot, so if 3rd person arguments with the same gender and number serve as core arguments for both clauses but are ''not'' co-referent and context cannot disambiguate the roles of the core arguments, the latter clause must explicitly indicate that, either by mentioning the core arguments by name or by a proxy noun. If context allows, the non-coreferent arguments may still be dropped. | ||
However, this structure is found only in the Stone Speaker, which the Minhast Language Academy incorporated in formulating the standardized language; the urban City Speaker dialect adopted this structure, presumably to distinguish themselves from the Speakers of the other Prefectures. The structure that predominates throughout the rest of the country involves a nominalization of the clause containing non-coreferent arguments as the O-argument, while the verb of the focus clause (the clause containing the principal core argument of the entire discourse unit<sup> | However, this structure is found only in the Stone Speaker, which the Minhast Language Academy incorporated in formulating the standardized language; the urban City Speaker dialect adopted this structure, presumably to distinguish themselves from the Speakers of the other Prefectures. The structure that predominates throughout the rest of the country involves a nominalization of the clause containing non-coreferent arguments as the O-argument, while the verb of the focus clause (the clause containing the principal core argument of the entire discourse unit<sup>6</sup>) is marked with the ''-dur-'' suffix, and precedes any ''-mā''-type subordinator. | ||
<small><sup> | <small><sup>6</sup>''A '' discourse unit ''is defined as series of contiguous sentences where a clearly identifiable Subject is coreferential across all clauses in the sentence series.''</small> | ||
== Idiomatic Phrases == | == Idiomatic Phrases == | ||