Lifashian: Difference between revisions

Even so, there is a prohibition against using inanimate agents for certain verbs that may imply volition: e.g. a sentence such as *lá tom népom ebelem "the vase hit me" is still ungrammatical, and so it has to be reformulated by explicitely marking the non-volitive action implied, i.e. ''so néps asyájat aw mek belit farhálm.'' "the vase fell and I was hit". Note the use of the passive in this standard sentence, but in colloquial registers the absolutive alignment is still used even without ''lá'', i.e. ''so néps asyájat aw mek ebelem.''