3.4 - Overview of case marking
Syntactic relationships are generally marked by word order or adpositions.
In particular, subject and direct object are only distinguished by means of word order (except when the object is topicalized). With double object constructions, the indirect object is also only distinguished by word order.
As to the adpositions, they are morphologically distinguished into monosyllabic and disyllabic ones. The former are equally suitable as enclitic postpositions or stressed prepositions, while disyllabic adpositions are only employed as prepositions.
Syntactically, some of the adpositions (especially the ones encoding relative position in space and time) can be governed by another adposition, in phrases such as "from outside the village."
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