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=== Incorporation of Direction and Goal === | === Incorporation of Direction and Goal === | ||
Compare this with the transitive clause dūy kallutekaru | Compare this with the transitive clause ''dūy kallutekaru < dūy kallut-ek-ar-un'', lit. "Fish eat-I-in.the.past-do", a transitive clause wherein the transitive suffix ''-u'' also surfaces. | ||
Now compare this with the verb complex ''iknatūmanaran'' (ikn-tūman-ar-an), lit. "go-home-in.the.past-be". This time a noun (tūman "home"), whose incorporated noun's thematic role is that of Direction/Goal, has been incorporated. I.e. this isn't a semantically direct object incorporated into the verb; instead, a syntactically oblique argument has been incorporated into the verb complex. The non-incorporated form would be Tūman=aran iknaran (house-towards.it he went), and here we can see due to the postclitic directional case (usually called dative case) clitic ''=aran'' marks tūman "house" as an oblique argument, it | Now compare this with the verb complex ''iknatūmanaran'' (ikn-tūman-ar-an), lit. "go-home-in.the.past-be". This time a noun (''tūman'' "home"), whose incorporated noun's thematic role is that of Direction/Goal, has been incorporated. I.e. this isn't a semantically direct object incorporated into the verb; instead, a syntactically oblique argument has been incorporated into the verb complex. The non-incorporated form would be ''Tūman=aran iknaran'' (house-towards.it he went), and here we can see due to the postclitic directional case (usually called dative case) clitic ''=aran'' marks ''tūman'' "house" as an oblique argument, as it is not a core, absolutive argument. | ||
=== Incorporation of Source === | === Incorporation of Source === | ||