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=====Ipse=====
=====Ipse=====
The so-called ''ipse'' ({{sc|ipse}}) marker '''-aq''' refers usually to the most salient previously mentioned NP. If there is no specific NP it is automatically assumed to refer to the speaker, i.e. it then corresponds to what other languages would call the first person.
The so-called ''ipse'' ({{sc|ipse}}) marker '''-aq''' refers usually to the most salient previously mentioned NP. If there is no specific NP it is automatically assumed to refer to the speaker, i.e. it then corresponds to what other languages would call the first person.
Intransitive sentence without explicit NP.


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|a-nna-ta-aq
|a-nna-ta-aq
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|{{sc|sg}}-{{sc|eat}}-{{sc|ipfv}}-{{sc|ipse}}
|{{sc|sg}}-eat-{{sc|ipfv}}-{{sc|ipse}}
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|‘I was eating.’
|‘I was eating.’

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