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[ram aur hari] ne ek dusre ko mithai khilayi
i
i
Ram and hari CM each other CM sweet feed+PAST
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| (6)
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[ram
aur hari] ne sita aur gita ko ek dusre ki
i
i
Ram and Hari CM sita and gita CM each other CM
kitabe
di
books give+PaST
(Ram and Hari gave Sita and Gita each other's
books.)
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| (7)
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[ram
aur hari] ko ek dusre ki kitabe bahut
i
i
Ram and Hari CM each other CM books very
acchi lagi
nice preceive+PAST
(Ram and Hari liked each ther's books very much.)
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| In (5) and (6) ram aur hari is the
antecedent of the anaphor ek dusre. Notice that
the antecedent is the agent in both. In the dative subject
construction (7), however, ram aur hari which is the antecedent
of ek dusre is not the agent in the sentence; we
will call it the perceiver. |
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| The anaphor ek dusre thus refers to
either the agent or the perceiver in the sentence depending
on which of the two is present. Since the verbs choosing
the agent and the perceiver belong to different types,
one action, the other stative, there is no possibility
of a sentence containing both the agent and the perceiver.
Now, in the following dative subject construction. |
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