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.