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|gloss=PROX-INV-see.IND-CONJ | |gloss=PROX-INV-see.IND-CONJ | ||
|translation=it is looking at me | |translation=it is looking at me | ||
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====Reflexivity==== | |||
A verb can also be made reflexive by using a deictic marker in the transitivity slot, meaning a distinction is made between proximal and distal reflexivity, corresponding to the spatial deixis of nominals rather than the normally temporal deixis of verbs. | |||
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|{{gloss | |||
|phrase=oadnago aesããs | |||
|IPA=[ʔɔ̯ɑ̞ʔ.ᵈn̠ɐˌɣo̞‿ʔɐɪ̯ˈz̠ɑ̞̃ːs̠] | |||
|gloss=shine.TRANS.IND-DUR REFL.PROX-LOC:LIQ.IND-CONJ | |||
|translation=I wash in the morning | |||
}} | |||
|{{gloss | |||
|phrase=oadnago ao go aosãã ma | |||
|IPA=[ʔɔ̯ɑ̞ʔ.ᵈn̠ɐˌɣo̞‿ʔɑ̞ːʊ̯ ɣo̞‿ʔɐʊ̯ˈz̠ɑ̞̃ː mɐ] | |||
|gloss=shine.TRANS.IND-DUR ao TOP:ACT REFL.DIST-LOC:LIQ.IND NEG | |||
|translation=Ao doesn't wash in the morning | |||
}} | |||
|} | |||
Reflexivity can be used to disambiguate between cases when the first and second person implications of the proximal deixis would otherwise collapse or as a proximate-obviative distinction. | |||
{| | |||
|{{gloss | |||
|phrase=emmõõ bo ee ehbadsas | |||
|IPA=[ʔɪmˈmũ̯õ̞ː‿ᵐbʊ‿ˈji̯eː‿je̞ħˈpɑ̞ʔ.t̠͡s̠ɐs̠] | |||
|gloss=PROX-POSS-head TOP:CRESC PROX PROX-TR-hand.FREQ.IND-CONJ | |||
|translation=you are braiding my hair | |||
}} | |||
|{{gloss | |||
|phrase=emmõõ bo ee eebadsas | |||
|IPA=[ʔɪmˈmũ̯õ̞ː‿ᵐbʊ‿ˈji̯eː‿je̞ɪ̯ˌβɑ̞ʔ.t̠͡s̠ɐs̠] | |||
|gloss=PROX-POSS-head TOP:CRESC PROX PROX-REFL.PROX-hand.FREQ.IND-CONJ | |||
|translation=I am braiding my hair | |||
}} | }} | ||