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{ *pfo }
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ta2
-la3 |
{ *he } |
am/*is/*are about
to3 leave2
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{ *ni }
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{ *you } |
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{ ai }1
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{ I }1 |
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{ *pfo }
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sho2-la3 |
{ *he } |
am/*is/*are about
to3 drink2
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{ *ni }
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{ *you } |
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{
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{ *pfo
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so2
-la3 |
{ *he } |
am/*is/*are about
to3 do2
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{ *ni }
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{ ai }1
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{ I }1 |
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{ *pfo }
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rü-la3
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{ *he } |
am/*is/*are about
to3 write2
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{ *ni }
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{
ai }1
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{ I }1 |
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{ *pfo }
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 ho2-la3
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{ *he } |
am/*is/*are about
to3 put in2 |
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Significantly, unlike its
equivalent expression in English, la has no negative.
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*1. |
ai1
ta2 -la3
moe4 |
I1
am3 not4
about to3 go2
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*2. |
ai1
sho2 -la3
moe4 |
I1
am not4 about
to drink2 |
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ai
1 so2
-la3 moe4
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I1
am3 not4
about to3 do2
(some thing) |
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*4. |
ai1
ho2
-la3 moe4
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I1
am3 not4
about to3 put
(it) in 2 |
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ai1
rü2-la3
moe4 |
I1
am3 not4
about to3 write2
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-la with impersonal
or O subjects is infelicitous
for a majority of speakers but is felicitous for some.
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?? ocü rü1-la2
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it is about to 2
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3.4.5.5.
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The Perfective Aspect |
The
perfective aspect in the no future is rendered for intransitive
verbs by the suffixes - i
and -oi,
the former indicating the continuance up to the time of
the speech act of the state/action/process identified by
the verb and the latter a kind of reversion, sometime before
the time of the speech act, to the
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3.
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-ti
is theValency - Role marker
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