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Reintroducing the Quaternary Template Clause Subordinator; changing t…
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…he sound form for the Ternary one; updating the documentation for template subordinators.
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Ntsekees committed Aug 4, 2024
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion grammar/src/grammemes.md
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| ea | PCS | Polarity Clause Subordinator |
|| UTCS | Unary Template Clause Subordinator |
| oa | BTCS | Binary Template Clause Subordinator |
| u’u | TTCS | Ternary Template Clause Subordinator |
| e’e | TTCS | Ternary Template Clause Subordinator |
| o’o | QTCS | Quaternary Template Clause subordinator |

### SCOPES:
| FORM | GLOSS | GRAMMEME |
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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions grammar/src/morphology/roles/subordinators.md
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There is one vocalic morpheme for each predicate arity, and each arity has its own set of lambda pronouns. Additionally, there are two different morphemes for unary predicates, they only differ in having a different lambda pronoun.

```
┌──────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Function │ V │ Lambda pronoun set
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────┬──────────────┤
│ Unary Template Clause 1 │ oı │ -tʼá │ -tʼ◈-
Unary Template Clause 2 │ ea-ltʼá │ -ltʼ◈-
Binary Template Clause │ oa │ -cʼí, -kʼú │ -cʼ◈-, -kʼ◈-
Ternary Template Clause │ ıʼı-čʼé, -pʼı̋, -qʼó │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────┴──────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐
│ Function │ V │ Lambda pronoun set │
├────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤
│ Unary Template Clause │ oı │ tʼ◈
Binary Template Clause oa │ cʼ◈, kʼ◈
Ternary Template Clause │ eʼe │ cʼ◈, pʼ◈, kʼ◈
Quaternary Template Clause │ oʼocʼ◈, pʼ◈, čʼ◈, kʼ◈
└────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
```

The lambda pronouns are shown in their contentive root form, with equivalent extensional prefix forms in the right-hand square (with ⟪◈⟫ standing for an Inner Case vocalic affix); only the unary and binary templates have extensional prefix forms for their lambda pronouns, as they are the most frequent in usage.
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