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Example 40-68
Ku Mari kere ki su rhapa kadz ʋi.
Ku
obj
Mari
Mari
kere
want
ki
comp
su
her
rhapa
boy
kadz
house
ʋi.
come
Mari wants her boy to come home.
Comment:
Kere
is a 'dative subject' verb: Its experiencer is coded as the object. Also, OBJ marker
ku
can also be realized as
ki.
It is not clear which factors affect the variation of
ku
and
ki
.
Type:
elicited from speaker
Source:
Own fieldwork materials
Language:
Korlai
by
J. Clancy Clements
cite
Datapoints:
Present reference of stative verbs and past perfective reference of dynamic verbs: Stative verbs with present reference and dynamic verbs with past perfective reference are marked differently
Complements of 'think' and 'want': Identical complementizer
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