Self-termination
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It has been proposed that Toaq could have auto-terminating clauses.
The idea is that you don't need to say cy when a subclause verb has all its arguments filled.
You know that the next argument must belong to the outer clause, because the inner clause can't take any more arguments.
Mẻoca lôı súq nháo jí.
The fact that you hate them saddens me.
It would be ungrammatical for jí to be a third argument to loı, which is "full" — so it must be a second argument to meoca.