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(Created the Desiderative II affix for expressing different-subject "to-want" expressions. For natlangs with Desiderative verbal forms, cross-linguistically different-subject Desiderative forms are rare. Today I found 2: Inuktitut and Manambu) |
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# As this verb form creates a transitive clause, the Controller becomes the ergative argument and the Controllee becomes the absolutive argument. | # As this verb form creates a transitive clause, the Controller becomes the ergative argument and the Controllee becomes the absolutive argument. | ||
# The ''-sassi-'' allomorph surfaces when immediately followed by the Causative ''-šp-'' affix, e.g. ''Sassišpikallutekarūš'' "I wanted to make him eat" (i.e. I wanted to feed him). | # The ''-sassi-'' allomorph surfaces when immediately followed by the Causative ''-šp-'' affix, e.g. ''Sassišpikallutekarūš'' "I wanted to make him eat" (i.e. I wanted to feed him). | ||
# The Desiderative II affix evolved from the fusion of the Desiderative I affix with the Causative during the Late Classical Minhast period or shortly after, when the | # The Desiderative II affix evolved from the fusion of the Desiderative I affix with the Causative during the Late Classical Minhast period or shortly after, when the the Desiderative and the Causative were regularly combined to express different-subject "to want" structures; c.f. Classical Minhast ''Šakišpikallutekarunuš'' "I wanted to cause him to eat" for "I want him to eat". | ||
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! Aversive | ! Aversive | ||