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Despite a third person being the agent of the action, the focus is on the first person (the assertor) and the verb is therefore conjunct. | Despite a third person being the agent of the action, the focus is on the first person (the assertor) and the verb is therefore conjunct. | ||
====Interrogatives and reported speech==== | |||
Unlike in some languages with involvement marking, the reference point of the conjunct marker does not change in questions or quotations in Ash. This has partially to do with the lack of distinct personal pronouns, and partially to do with the difference in the evidential (first-person-centric) nature of its modal devices (the reportative word {{ash|gaa}} and its reduced clitic form {{ash|ga}}, and the the interrogative clitic {{ash|no}}), and the fact that the interrogative is really "indeterminate" and also used for (again first-person-centric) uncertainties ("maybe"). | |||
Thus the conjunct {{ash|-s}} always refers to the first person, i.e. the speaker, but again not as a subject or agent marker but merely an involvement marker, thus also as an object or patient marker. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||