Editing Crow language (section)

====Verb chain====
Crow has a fairly complex ordering of verb phrase constituents. The following table demonstrates simple constructions of active-state intransitive and transitive verbs based on the first person.

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! 1
! 2
! 3
! 4
! 5
! 6
! 7
! 8
! 9
! 10
! 11
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! [[Indirect object]]
! Indirect Object No.
! [[Direct object]]
! Subject: [[Transitive verb]]
! Subject: [[Intransitive verb]]
! Subject No.
! Verb Stem
! Subject: Transitive Causative
! [[Causative]]
! Subject No.
! [[Grammatical mood|Mood]]
|-
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! <small>B-Set Pronominals</small>
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! <small>A-Set Pronominals</small>
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!1
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|''baa''
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|Active Intransitive
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|Singular-Plural
|Mood
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!2
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|''bii''
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|Singular-Plural
|Active Intransitive
|''[b]''
|''aa''
|Singular-Plural
|Mood
|-
!3
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|''bii''
|''baa''
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|Singular-Plural
|Active Transitive
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|Singular-Plural
|Mood
|-
!4
|''bii''
|Singular-Plural
|''bii''
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|Singular-Plural
|Active Transitive
|''wa''
|''hc''
|Singular-Plural
|Mood
|-
!5
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|''bii''
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|Stative Intransitive
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|Singular-Plural
|Mood
|-
!6
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|''bii''
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|Singular-Plural
|Stative Intransitive
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|Singular-Plural
|Mood
|}

*1-4) Active ("A-Set") pronominals in Crow are very diverse coming in many different forms based on the based bound form. They are patterned by a certain list of lexical and phonological factors, such as the ''dú(u) - by hand'' pattern which results in a 1sg ''bu'' and a 2sg ''di'', or the ''dá(a) - by mouth'' pattern which results in a 1sg ''ba'' and a 2sg ''da''.
*2) For Active-Intransitive Causative Verbs, 1-2 person singular causitive (rank 10) is marked by ''aa'' as in chart, 1-2 person plural is marked by ''uu'', 3rd person singular is marked by ''ee'' or ''a'' determined lexically, and 3rd person plural is marked by either ''uu'', ''o'', or ''iio'' determined lexically.
*4) For Active-Transitive Causative Verbs, the causative transitive verb subject is marked by ''wa'' in the first person, ''la'' in the second person and ''0'' in the third person. The Causative affixes are ''hc'' (singular) and ''hk'' (plural).
*Mood in Crow is expressed by a variety of postpositionals. The standard indicative morpheme is ''k''.

The verb chain constituents are, of course, much more complicated. Following is a concise list of the rank ordering of each type element:
*Prefixes:
**I: Adverbial proclitics:
**II: B-set pronominal elements
**III: A-set pronominal elements
**IV: Locative prefixes
**V: Instrumental prefixes
*Stem:
**VI: Stem modification - reduplication or prefixation and infixation of ''chi/ku'' "again"
*Suffixes
**VII: Derivational suffixes
**VIII: Punctual ''áhi''
**IX: Continuative, modal, or benefactive auxiliary
**X: Habitual ''i''
**XI: Plural
**XII: Subordinate clause markers
***a. Speech act and evidential markers
***b. Switch reference markers
***c. Subordinate clause markers
***d. Clauses without final markers
**XIII: Negative ''ssaa''