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ni1
ico2 ni3
to4 lozhüe/lozhe5
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can5
you (sg.)1 see3
well4 now2
(= e.g. somebody has so far been obstructing |
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your vision)? |
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pfo1
shüpüi2 losüe/lose3
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can3
she1 speak2
(= e.g. she’d lost her speech in an accident,
can she speak |
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after treatment)? |
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10. |
pfo1
shüpüi2 lozhüe/lozhe3
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can3
she1 speak2
(= can she speak well, correctly, effectively,
confidently |
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as after an illness
or before an audience etc.)? |
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11. |
ni1
imela2 rü {lo(sü)} |
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{
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(h)o moe3
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{*lozhü} |
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can you (sg.)1
write3 Mao2
(= do you know how or do you have the competence
to write Mao)? |
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Unlike its English counterpart, but like its Dravidian counterparts
(cf. e.g. balla(Lu)/balle ‘can’ in Kannada (South
Dravidian), lo(sü) expresses only innate ability
and not possibility.
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12. |
kazhiebvü1
kazhie- i2
tacü3 |
{
amoloe }4 |
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{*losüe/*lose} |
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flying2
planes 1 |
{ may } |
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{
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be4
dangerous3 |
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{
*can } |
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3.4.6.13.
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The Mood of Mental Readiness to
Brave Circumstances |
The
mood of Mental Readiness to Brave circumstances on the part
of the no subject speaker is marked by ab/abüi
and by b/büi if the speaker is in fact the subject
which preceded le the future tense marker. The
glosses are merely suggestive approximations, no more.
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non-subject
speaker |
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ocü rü1
-ąb/büi le2 |
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let it2
rain1 it’s o.k.,
I’ll face it2
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ocü ni1
-ąb/büi le 2 |
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let it2
shine1, it’s
o.k., I’ll face it2
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3. |
pfo-no1
ayi2 da-ab/büi
le3 |
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let3
him1 hit3
me2 , it’s o.k.,
I’ll face it2
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subject-speaker |
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ai1
thi sü b/büi le2
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it’s o.k., even if
2 I1
die2 |
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5. |
*ai thi
sü ąb/büi le |
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The Mood of Action Contrary to
Earlier State of Affairs |
The
mood of Action Contrary to Earlier State of Affairs expresses
the beginning and continued state of an action which didn’t
exist earlier. It is marked by - i.
Note that the lexical verb in Mao to mean ‘to start’ is
ta.
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