Afta ùna bay dì bloques dɛ̀n tumara. then 2PL buy DEF bricks PL tomorrow 'Then buy plural%DIFDELCMD < ] %%% the bricks tomorrow.' À raya in wèt rayador. 1SG.SBJ grate 3SG.EMP with grater 'I grated it with a grater.'%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% À gò sigue chɔp. 1SG.SBJ POT continue eat 'I'll continue eating.' Overview of Pichi grammar Pichi has a seven vowel system featuring the phonemes . The consonant phonemes of Pichi are twenty-two: . The co-articulated labiovelar plosives and are marginal and only occur in ideophones. The language features a mixed prosodic system which employs both pitch accent and tone. Pichi has two distinctive tones, a high (H) and a low (L) tone. In pitch-accented words, a phonetic (L) tone is the default realisation of a toneless syllable (X). Examples follow with the four possible tonal configurations for bisyllabic words (examples from Yakpo 2009): Dan awa à bìn dɔn dè slip. that hour 1SG.SBJ PST PRF IPFV sleep '(At) that time, I was already sleeping.' Besides that, there is a limited use of inflectional morphology in the pronominal system, in which both tone and suppletive forms are used to express case relations. For example, the dependent subject pronoun à ‘1SG.SBJ’ has the allomorphs mì ‘1SG.POSS’ and mi ‘3SG.EMP’. In the following example, tone alone distinguishes possessive from objective case of the 1SG personal pronoun: Dɛ̀n tif mi mì sus. 3PL steal 1SG.EMP 1SG.POSS shoe 'They stole my shoes from me.' Pichi is an aspect-prominent language in which aspect (and mood), rather than tense plays a dominant role in expressing temporal relations. Besides that, the modal system includes an indicative-subjunctive opposition. Subjunctive mood is instantiated in the modal complementiser ‘SBJV’ and occurs in contexts characterised by the presence of deontic modality, i.e. in directive main clauses such as imperatives as well as in the subordinate clauses of deontic modality inducing main predicates (see the first example below). Subjunctive mood also occurs in purpose clauses (see the second example below): È nak dì plet pàn dì tebul bìkɔs è want mek dì plet brok. 3SG.SBJ hit DEF plate on DEF table because 3SG.SBJ want SBJV DEF plate break 'He hit the plate on the table because he wanted the plate to break.' Dɛ̀n kan kɛr mi nà Madrid fɔ̀ mek dɛ̀n go opera mi. 3pl PFV carry 1SG.EMP LOC Madrid ASS SBJV 3pl go operate 1SG.EMP ‘They took me to Madrid in order to go and operate on me.’
 %DIFDELCMD < ] %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Overview of Pichi grammar Pichi has a seven vowel system featuring the phonemes . The consonant phonemes of Pichi are twenty-two: . The co-articulated labiovelar plosives and are marginal and only occur in ideophones. The language features a mixed prosodic system which employs both pitch accent and tone. Pichi has two distinctive tones, a high (H) and a low (L) tone. In pitch-accented words, a phonetic (L) tone is the default realisation of a toneless syllable (X). Examples follow with the four possible tonal configurations for bisyllabic words (examples from Yakpo 2009): Besides that, there is a limited use of inflectional morphology in the pronominal system, in which both tone and suppletive forms are used to express case relations. For example, the dependent subject pronoun à ‘1SG.SBJ’ has the allomorphs mì ‘1SG.POSS’ and mi ‘3SG.EMP’. In the following example, tone alone distinguishes possessive from objective case of the 1SG personal pronoun: Pichi is an aspect-prominent language in which aspect (and mood), rather than tense plays a dominant role in expressing temporal relations. Besides that, the modal system includes an indicative-subjunctive opposition. Subjunctive mood is instantiated in the modal complementiser ‘SBJV’ and occurs in contexts characterised by the presence of deontic modality, i.e. in directive main clauses such as imperatives as well as in the subordinate clauses of deontic modality inducing main predicates (see the first example below). Subjunctive mood also occurs in purpose clauses (see the second example below): 
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Afta ùna bay dì bloques dɛ̀n tumara. then 2PL buy DEF bricks PL tomorrow 'Then buy
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the bricks tomorrow.'
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À raya in wèt rayador. 1SG.SBJ grate 3SG.EMP with grater 'I grated it with a grater.'
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À gò sigue chɔp. 1SG.SBJ POT continue eat 'I'll continue eating.'
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Dan awa à bìn dɔn dè slip. that hour 1SG.SBJ PST PRF IPFV sleep '(At) that time, I was already sleeping.'
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Dɛ̀n tif mi mì sus. 3PL steal 1SG.EMP 1SG.POSS shoe 'They stole my shoes from me.'
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È nak dì plet pàn dì tebul bìkɔs è want mek dì plet brok. 3SG.SBJ hit DEF plate on DEF table because 3SG.SBJ want SBJV DEF plate break 'He hit the plate on the table because he wanted the plate to break.'
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Dɛ̀n kan kɛr mi nà Madrid fɔ̀ mek dɛ̀n go opera mi. 3pl PFV carry 1SG.EMP LOC Madrid ASS SBJV 3pl go operate 1SG.EMP ‘They took me to Madrid in order to go and operate on me.’