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Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs. | Similar to Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, in using analytic constructions with auxiliaries and verbal nouns instead of conjugated verbs. | ||
Modern Netagin has an extreme form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense:'' When an ergative preposition is used, the sentence is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about a merger of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''se3þe'' 'after'. | Modern Netagin has an extreme form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense:'' When an ergative preposition is used, the sentence is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about via a merger of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''se3þe'' 'after'. | ||
====Non-past==== | ====Non-past==== | ||
:'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.''''' | :'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.''''' | ||