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  1. Para Sinitic Languages

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    A key syntactic marker is the obligatory presence of the Nominative Case Particle ($\text{/ŋa/}$)/), which must immediately follow the subject noun phrase. If $\text{/ŋa/}$ is omitted, the utterance is understood not as a statement of fact, but as an abstract philosophical query.
    Example (Zang-Bao NPS):
    Man-ŋa house-to run-past.* (Literal translation: "The man ran to the house.")
    Man house-to run-past.* (Literal translation: "Does man run to house?") [5]