Tpaalha Grammar

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Tpaalha is a fusional language. It follows nominative-accusative morphosyntactic alignment. The language is mostly head-final, with some head-initial features. The default word order is subject-object-verb (SOV). The language has postpositions, although postpositional phrases follow the nouns they modify. "True" adjectives precede the nouns they modify, however, these are few in number. Most terms that function as adjectives are instead postpositional phrases with nouns, which may indicate whether the quality described was acquired on purpose or accidentally, and follow the nouns they modify. Similarly, relative clauses follow the nouns they modify, and possessors follow their possessees.