Example 41-164

eev kera elipa un sumaanantu trees vees pavii
eev
1sg
kera
want
[eli-pa
[3sg-dat
uŋ
one
sumaana-ntu
week-loc
trees
three
vees
time
pa-vii]
inf-come]
I want him to come 3 times a week.
Comment:
This is an elicited sentence and could be calqued from English. This speaker had a tendency to use English as a model in elicitation situations. There are no naturalistic examples of kera with a clausal complement having a different subject.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Smith 1974-5: 4163