With a single prefix and without a proclitic, stress falls on the verbal root, which assumes the " " ( " second-stressed " ) form.
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With a prefix and also with a proclitic, stress falls on the prefix, and the verb assumes the " " ( " first-stressed " ) form.
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A less common way to express negation is the use of the particle " "'n?" "'before the verb or before the proclitic subject pronoun.
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Level IV is marked by a proclitic ( i . e . word that depends on the following word and works similarly to an affix, such as the word a or an in English ) " ma ".
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The phenomenon ( accent shift to proclitic ) is most frequent in the spoken idioms of Bosnia, as in Serbian it is more limited ( normally with the negation proclitic " ne " ) and it is almost absent from Croatian Neo-Shtokavian idioms.
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The phenomenon ( accent shift to proclitic ) is most frequent in the spoken idioms of Bosnia, as in Serbian it is more limited ( normally with the negation proclitic " ne " ) and it is almost absent from Croatian Neo-Shtokavian idioms.
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Tense is normally indicated by the use of a particular verb form either an Irish past tense, where the proclitic " do " ( in various surface forms ) appears in conjunction with the affixed or ablaut-modified past tense form of the main verb.
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However, formal BP still follows EP in avoiding starting a sentence with a proclitic pronoun; so both will write " Deram-lhe o livro " ( " They gave him / her the book " ) instead of " Lhe deram o livro ", though it will seldom be spoken in BP ( but would be clearly understood ).
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However, when primary stress is marked in a third syllable it can also be consider as a secondary stress according to Canonge s but an exception to this case is when both a proclitic and prefix are used . An example of a third syllable stress is [ h?. bi + hu . p�i . tu ] which means'stopped and lay down '.
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Here is a thread which explicitly attributes the " a-verbing " form to a reduction from " on-verbing " : " The OED says that the a-verbing form derives from a worn-down proclitic form of the Old English preposition an, on . " The next poster confirms the same is found in Chambers . talk ) 19 : 04, 11 August 2012 ( UTC)
