(or comitative) case instead. Bardi also uses local case markers to indicate spatial relations involving location, motion, and direction. The suffixes used to denote these local cases are listed in the table below. Verbal morphology Verbal morphology in Bardi is "quasi-agglutinative," in that much of the morphology is able to be divided into segments. It is also entirely inflectional, with the exception of a single affix with derivational properties. Simple verbal predicates in Bardi consist of a verb inflected with prefixes indicating number and person. Suffixes and clitics are optional . Complex verbal predicates additionally feature an uninflected preverb before the root. A prefix indicating person is found in all inflecting verbs. Beyond containing this prefix, inflecting verbs can contain up to ten additional prefixes and suffixes which indicate "transitivity, tense, aspect, applicatives, and reflexive/reciprocal derivation." Two examples of the inflectional affixation within simple verbal predicates can be seen below. Other morphological processes Though Bardi is highly affixal, it also utilizes other morphological processes, including reduplication, infixation, and compounding. {{interlinear|indent=3 |gard<ard>i |enter<REDUP/> |'to enter over and over again' Verbal reduplication in Bardi is primarily used for iterative, distributive, or pluractional functions. Iterative reduplication of a verb marks that its action is repetitive (as seen below). Reduplicating a verb can also mark that the action is distributive, or done multiple times by multiple parties. Pluractionality, or multiple parties engaging in the same action, is also indicated by means of verbal reduplication. Bardi employs the morphological process of compounding. means 'mother's father' and means 'mother's mother.' The two are combined to make , meaning 'grandparents.' This same process is seen at work in a majority of Bardi's kinship terms. Syntax Word Order Bardi has free word order governed by information structure. Consider the sentence "," which is ordered V-S-DO-IO: In addition to the above construction, all other permutations of this sentence are also possible: (etc.) Other ordering preferences Though Bardi has free word order, some ordering preferences do exist. These preferences are based on principles of “pragmatics, grounding, and focus.” Often constituents are located 1) clause-initially or 2) clause-finally based on their contextual relevance. Focus constituents are usually clause-initial. These constituents include information bearing contrastive focus, as well as information that is novel. Non-omitted topics—information that is old but reintroduced—are usually clause-final. In Bardi, topics that persist in discourse are usually omitted in the sentences following their initial introduction. However, if an