Object incorporation

Object incorporation is when an object forms a unit with the verb and it moves to be with a verb. This results in VOS word order.

Determiners and content clauses lose their original tone and gain the tone. Nouns work a bit differently; see examples below.

Examples

Haqbaı jí báq tuze cook 1s gnr soup "I cook soup."

Haqbaı bâq tuze jí cook gnr soup 1s "I soup-cook."

As you can see, the object, báq tuze gets moved to the left to be with the verb, haqbaı. As a result of this new reördering, báq's gets changed to to make sure that it doesn't mean:

Haqbaı	báq	tuze	jí
cook	gnr	soup	1s
"Soup-kind cooks me."

I hope we're not having some sort of soup revolution!

The same happens with pronouns.

Maı jí súq love 1s 2s "I love you."

Maı sûq jí love 2s 1s "I love-you."

Nouns work a bit differently. Instead of directly gaining , they get lô before them.

Cho jí káto like 1s cat "I like the cat."

Cho lô kato jí like the cat 1s "I like-the-cat."

This is to avoid making an adjunct (adverb or preposition).

Cho	kâto	jí
like	cat	1s
"Like cat I."

We're not trying to use kato as a preposition (because it doesn't make any sense), so lô is used.