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There are only two tenses: past and non-past. | There are only two tenses: past and non-past. | ||
Modern Netagin has an | Modern Netagin has an unusual form of split-ergativity in that ''ergativity marks tense'' in transitive clauses: When an ergative preposition is used, the clause is in the past tense; otherwise, it is in the non-past tense. This came about via the conflation of two prepositions ''să-'' 'in, at' and ''se3þe'' 'after' in an older split-ergative system. | ||
For intransitive clauses, the past tense is marked by an ergative preposition used on the subject, even though the subject is not syntactically ergative. | For intransitive clauses, the past tense is marked by an ergative preposition used on the subject, even though the subject is not syntactically ergative. Hence, the system is not a genuine split-ergative system but rather a tensed pronoun system. | ||
====Non-past==== | ====Non-past==== | ||
:'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.''''' | :'''''Se ʔadnaʔe reȝun ʔaxd.''''' | ||