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====== Applicatives ====== | ====== Applicatives ====== | ||
The Applicative affixes betray their origins as | The Applicative affixes betray their origins as motion and positional verbs. However, Applicatives, unlike their locomotive verbal counterparts, also alter the argument structure of a clause by promoting an oblique NP to a derived Patient argument; this promotion of an oblique argument triggers the demotion of the original Patient argument to oblique status. Applicatives are mutually incompatible with the Passive and Antipassive markers that are carried on the auxiliary verb (see section on Auxiliary Verbs below). | ||
Because of their origin from motion and positional verbs, these affixes are prefixed to the main verb. | |||
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| yayk-|| upwards on a mountain | | yayk-|| upwards on a mountain | ||
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====== Aspect ====== | ====== Aspect ====== | ||