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: boy girl PROX-look | : boy girl PROX-look | ||
: 'The girl is being looked at by the boy.' | : 'The girl is being looked at by the boy.' | ||
But example sentence (3) sounds wrong to most Suwáá speakers because the less animate noun occurs before the more animate noun: | |||
: ''*Hipyii unɛń hyinchwáq.'' | |||
: bird girl PST-OBV-peck | |||
: 'The bird pecked the girl.' | |||
To express this idea requires that the more animate noun occur first, as in sentence (4): | |||
: ''Unɛń hipyii hyiichwáq.'' | |||
: girl bird PST-PROX-peck | |||
: 'The girl was pecked by the bird.' | |||
== Vocabulary == | == Vocabulary == | ||
Purist | Purist | ||