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Note that the above days of the week is derived from Tibetan language ("Pur-gae"). Sherpa is a SOV language. Some grammatical aspects of Sherpa are as follows: * Nouns are defined by morphology when a bare noun occurs in the genitive and this extends to the noun phrase. Defined by syntactic co-occurrence with the locative clitic, comes first in the noun phrase after demonstratives. * Demonstratives are defined syntactically by first position in the NP directly before the noun. * Quantifiers: Number words occur last in the noun phrase with the exception of the definite article. * Adjectives occur after the noun in the NP and morphologically only take genitive marking when in construct with a noun. * Verbs may morphologically be distinguished by differing or suppletive roots for the perfective, imperfective, and imperative. Occur last in a clause before the verbal auxiliaries. * Verbal Auxiliaries occur last in a clause. * Postpositions occur last in a postpositional NP. Other typological features: 1. Split Ergativity based on Aspect 2. SO & OV (SOV) 3. N-A 4. N-Num 5. V-Aux 6. N-Post |