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Example 40-76
Yo ulyo padgar su kadz.
Yo
I
ulyo
see.
pst
padgar
priest
su
gen
kadz.
house
I saw the priest's house.
Comment:
Clements (1996: 160) suggests that Patient marking is best understood on a continuum. Most of the time, animate direct objects are marked with
ku
; and most of the time, inanimate direct objects are not marked. These are, however, tendencies.
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Clements 1996
: 160
Language:
Korlai
by
J. Clancy Clements
cite
Datapoints:
Marking of patient noun phrases: Only animate patient NPs are marked
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