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I SUB aro rice OBJ kwete. eat VERB Ti aro kwete. I rice eat SUB OBJ VERB "I eat rice" Young and Givón describe the sentence features in which Ngäbere differs from typical S–O–V languages: "Although the language bears the unmistakable marks of an SOV language, auxiliaries and modality verbs precede – rather than follow – their compliments. This also extends to the negative marker ...