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|'Your master has died on you' (i.e., died and it negatively affects you)}} | |'Your master has died on you' (i.e., died and it negatively affects you)}} | ||
In some uses of the aversive passive, the subject of the sentence may be difficult to ascertain. For example, the sentence '''''furuō pālā''''' 'I fell from the tree' can be expressed in using the aversive passive, because the action is undesirable. However, the straight aversive passive, '''''furuēlō pālā''''', is ambiguous; it could mean either 'I fell from the tree' (using the ''ablative of motion'') or 'The tree fell on me' (using the ''agentive ablative''). In the first interpretation, the first person argument is the semantic subject of the clause, whilst in the second it is the tree. In order to emphasise that the semantic subject and syntactic arguments are the same (i.e. it is ''I'' who fell from the tree), the reflexive pronoun ''cē'' may be used; e.g. ''furuō pālā'' ('I fell from the tree') → '''''furuēlō cē pālā''''' ('I fell from the tree, and it negatively affected me' ''lit.'' 'I fell myself from the tree'). | |||
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