2,969
edits
User:Waahlis/Sandbox/Ris: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 67: | Line 67: | ||
}} | }} | ||
=== | ===Inversion of unergatives and unaccusatives=== | ||
[[Image:Alignment-qri.png|right|thumb|An illustration of the Ris alignment of verbal arguments, as a function of control, unergatives and unaccusatives.|450px]] | [[Image:Alignment-qri.png|right|thumb|An illustration of the Ris alignment of verbal arguments, as a function of control, unergatives and unaccusatives.|450px]] | ||
Not all intransitive verbs are marked as described above. This only applies to Ris unaccusative verbs. The Ris unergative verbs instead inverse the marking, using the agentive as a default, low-control marking, and the patientive for high-control subjects. | Not all intransitive verbs are marked as described above. This only applies to Ris unaccusative verbs. The Ris unergative verbs instead inverse the marking, using the agentive as a default, low-control marking, and the patientive for high-control subjects. | ||
| Line 96: | Line 96: | ||
|translation = I am trying to sleep. | |translation = I am trying to sleep. | ||
}} | }} | ||
Unergatives are intransitive verbs and have | Unergatives are intransitive verbs and have a semantic agent as their subject. When the subject is marked with the agentive case, the verb almost unaccusative, lowering the volition, control and agency with the syntactic subject. | ||
{{Gloss | |||
|phrase = Kinizas, kinizas! | |||
|IPA = /kɪnɪˈd͡zas kɪnɪˈd͡zas/ | |||
|morphemes = kiniz-{{red|as}} | |||
|gloss = to drive.ACT.IND.PRFV-{{red|AGT}}.1.SG | |||
|translation = You're driving, you're driving! (''How is it possible?'') | |||
}} | |||