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CONTENTS
5.4.2.3. Genitive ................................................ 36
5.4.2.4. Locative ................................................ 39
5.4.2.5. Dative .................................................. 40
5.4.2.6. Comitative ............................................ 40
5.4.2.7. Ablative-instrumental .......................... 41
5.4.2.8. Terminative .......................................... 42
5.4.2.9. Directive .............................................. 43
5.4.2.10. Equative .............................................. 44
5.4.2.11. Recapitulation of the case particles .... 44
CHAPTER SIX Adjectives ..........................................................
CHAPTER SEVEN Determination, specification: demonstrative
particles .................................................................................. 49
7.1. -ne(n) ............................................................................ 49
7.2. -bi .................................................................................. 50
7.3. -e() ................................................................................ 50
7.4. -ri() .............................................................................. 50
7.5. -“e .................................................................................. 51
7.6. Recapitulation .............................................................. 51
CHAPTER EIGHT Overview of the sequence of particles for
possession, number and case ................................................
CHAPTER NINE Pronouns ........................................................ 55
9.1. Personal pronouns ........................................................ 55
9.2. Possessive pronouns ...................................................... 56
9.3. Demonstrative pronouns .............................................. 57
9.3.1. ur 5 ........................................................................ 57
9.3.2. ne-e(n) ................................................................ 57
9.4. Interrogative pronouns ................................................ 57
9.5. Alleged pronouns .......................................................... 58
CHAPTER TEN Numerals .......................................................... 61
10.1. General .......................................................................... 61
10.2. Cardinal numbers ........................................................ 61
10.3. Ordinal numbers .......................................................... 66
10.4. Fraction and measure terminology ............................ 67
10.5. Distributional relations of numbers ............................ 67
CHAPTER ELEVEN Adverbs ......................................................
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