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'Want' Complement Subjects
Language:
Páez
Feature:
'Want' Complement Subjects
by
Martin Haspelmath
Value:
Subject is left implicit
Examples
Sentence igt-2796:
[Wakar-ti's-a'] nasa [wala uy] wê-xe-ts-me:-ta'.
[Wakar-ti's-a']
white-
dat
-
top
nasa
p
áez
[wala
much
uy]
see
wê-xe-ts-me:-ta'.
want- IMPF-
prog
-
neg
-
decl
.
3pl
The Páez don't want to see the whites much.
References
Jung 1989
cite
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