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<p>does not imply that the soldiers forced or even ordered the man to cut the trees but rather implies that the man did it on his own in order to ease their march. This contrasts with the causative form <em>ižycavdimax swroħúrwm sek mimýaħ </em> (the soldiers made the man cut the trees) where it could be assumed that the soldiers played an active role in having the man cut the tree.</p> | <p>does not imply that the soldiers forced or even ordered the man to cut the trees but rather implies that the man did it on his own in order to ease their march. This contrasts with the causative form <em>ižycavdimax swroħúrwm sek mimýaħ </em> (the soldiers made the man cut the trees) where it could be assumed that the soldiers played an active role in having the man cut the tree.</p> | ||
<p>In a type-I | <p>In a type-I applicative, the benefited argument takes the absolutive case, while the argument that hold that position before (the object in a transitive verb or the subject in an intransitive verb) takes the secundative case instead, as seen in <em>séket</em>, the secundative form of <em>sek</em> (trees). The secundative argument may be dropped as in the following example:</p> | ||
<p><em>Kocwñimax oħúrwmaħ mimy. </em></p> | <p><em>Kocwñimax oħúrwmaħ mimy. </em></p> | ||