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[insert another poem here, visualizing aspects] kuì ekuil |
[translation of poem] life is gradual death |
Weather verbsDoes not have an implicit first person singular agent pronoun. Transitive verbsVerbs like rî give - ask are transitive. They pattern like this:
Several divalent verbs, the VN-constructions are formed from trivalent ones: rîkuì give birth, rî,ar surrender, ta,ar capture. These all pattern like the verbs they are formed from, except that since the PATIENT is built-in, this role is skipped.
Trivalent verbsVerbs like rî give zig buy - ask are trivalent. They pattern like this:
Verbs like ta receive, get are ditransitive. They pattern like this:
Verbs of motionVerbs like âr think are experiencer verbs. They pattern like this:
Experiencer verbsVerbs like âr think are experiencer verbs. They pattern like this:
CausationStatives can be made into transitive verbs with -ac: The difference between aì- and ë-: whenfuture: -uìAfter consonants: -uì, after <i>, <y> or <e>: -sse, after <a>, <o> or <u>: -i. fiaxuì vaìsse ynnesse xdai qtsoi xvui FUT future past: -raPST past howbeginning: -eiICP inceptive ending: -taCES cessative repeatinghabitualchange of stategradually: -linstantaneously: -rvoice and voice-changesdemotionthe imperativesoáh "let us" vren, va- "standard imperative" passive-aál, y- Latter drops agent completely PAS passive antiexperiencer: -taAEXP antiexperiencer promotiongeneral causativityintransitive statives > transitivesmoodevidentiality
other things marked on verbsreflexive: -huxRFL reflexive reciprocal: -tcaREC reciprocal -aìbh ACC accidental -mo INT intentional evidence/certainty (inference, hearsay, fact) mood (telicity?, hypothetic) Derivational affixes=enn doer ä= doee =ax makes experiencer of non-experiencer verb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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