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: ''Lá yádás mintás kúrhíyámi.'' (My memories haunt me.) | : ''Lá yádás mintás kúrhíyámi.'' (My memories haunt me.) | ||
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 ng mek | 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 ng mek ebelem'' "the vase fell and I was hit" - note the absolutive meaning of the nominative case of the pronoun ''mek''. | ||
===Relative clauses=== | ===Relative clauses=== |
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