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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. |
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| ====Grammatical ambiguities====
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| Despite this elaborate system there are still instances where first and second person collapse. However this is not generally an issue in the affected instances thanks to context. Had the agent been proximal in the previous example there would have been a grammatical ambiguity.
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| |phrase=emmõõ bo ee ehbadsas
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| |IPA=[ʔɪmˈmũ̯õ̞ː‿ᵐbo̞‿ˈji̯eː‿je̞ħˈpɑʔ.t̠͡s̠ɐs̠]
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| |gloss=PROX-POSS-head TOP:CRESC PROX PROX-TR-hand.FREQ.IND-CONJ
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| |translation=I am braiding my hair; you are braiding my hair; I am braiding your hair
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| However since a first and second person are both proximal and thereby directly present in the context of the action this is not ambiguous in practice: both people are aware of whether they are personally doing the braiding or not and thereby whom is meant.
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| ===Subclauses=== | | ===Subclauses=== |