arguments to the verb are indicated by the agreement affixes which form the verbal inflectional clitics, where the subject affix precedes the one for the object. A third person object or subject can either be overtly marked or just referenced in the inflectional clitic, first and second person can only be marked by the clitic. The conventions followed for glosses are those used by Everett & Kern (1997). In the examples given, the tense and mood is realis past/present, glossed as rp/p. A verb can have up to four arguments, but it is uncommon to express more than one at a time. Instances of three or more arguments being expressed usually only come from elicited examples. COMP sentences COMP sentences are referred to as such by Everett and Kern (1996) because their initial position is occupied by what they refer to as a COMP or complementizer word. These give the sentence – or a variable in the sentence – a particular interpretation. For a sentence to be a COMP sentence, it must have a COMP word in the initial position, an inflectional morpheme closely following which gives information about tense, mood, and sometimes gender, and a tenseless verbal inflectional clitic following the verb. Here is a list of the COMP words found in the Oro Nao dialect. {| class="wikitable" !COMP word !Morphological composition !Function !Example sentence |- | |demonstrative 'that:prox:hearer' |interrogation | |- | |ma+-on '3sm object' |interrogation (masculine) | |- | |ma'''+-m '3sf object' |interrogation (feminine) | |- | |ma+-in '3n object' |interrogation (neuter) | |- | |verb 'to not exist' |negation | |- | |verb 'list presentation' |condition | |- | |preverbal modifier 'like' |indication of resemblance | |- | |emphatic pronoun '3n' |affirmation/interrogation | |- | |verb 'to be different' |contraexpectation | |- | |demonstrative 'that neuter distal' |interrogation | |- | |prepostition '3n' |subordination | |} Copular Sentences Wariʼ does not have a copula verb, so sentences that would use this instead have what would be the adjective become the verb. Definiteness Wariʼ does not have any articles. Definiteness or indefiniteness can be expressed by either the use of demonstratives or verbal inflectional clitics containing the object. However this latter option does not always distinguish definiteness, as indefinite objects can also be marked in the inflectional clitics. References Mily Crevels (2012). Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock is Ticking In Lyle Campbell & Verónica Grondona.