ending in a nasal are suspected to be verbal forms, for example, m?ane, mlane, m?n (cf. uio-m?n), 'they vowed, offered (?)', pisñ, 'they gave (?)'. However, to make such nasal endings fit in with the usual Anatolian verb paradigm (with 3rd person plural preterite endings in -(n)t/-(n)d, from *-onto), one would have to assume a non-trivial evolution in Carian from *-onto into -n, -ñ (and possibly -ne?).

Syntax

Virtually nothing is known of Carian syntax. This is chiefly due to two factors: first, uncertainty as to which words

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