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These aspects are well-established across dialects, but other looser constructions exist as well. | These aspects are well-established across dialects, but other looser constructions exist as well. | ||
= Adverbial phrases expressing time = | == Adverbial phrases expressing time == | ||
In English, we think of the past as being behind us and the future as being ahead. In Commonthroat, the past is ''below'' and the future is ''above''. When discussing at which point in time an event occurred, you use the adverbial phrase <code>DC`` m</code> /long falling strengthening whine/ ''below.'' for events that occurred in the past, and <code>CD`` m</code> /long rising weakening whine/ ''above'' for events that will occur in the future. You precede this phrase with time words like sdFr shkqg ''a few years'' or KJq MNqg ''three days'' and so forth. | In English, we think of the past as being behind us and the future as being ahead. In Commonthroat, the past is ''below'' and the future is ''above''. When discussing at which point in time an event occurred, you use the adverbial phrase <code>DC`` m</code> /long falling strengthening whine/ ''below.'' for events that occurred in the past, and <code>CD`` m</code> /long rising weakening whine/ ''above'' for events that will occur in the future. You precede this phrase with time words like sdFr shkqg ''a few years'' or KJq MNqg ''three days'' and so forth. | ||