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Nganasan
/
The Optative
Language:
Nganasan
Feature:
The Optative
by
Nina Dobrushina
and
Johan van der Auwera
and
Valentin Goussev
Value:
Inflectional optative absent
Examples
Sentence igt-862:
D’ojbaru i-n’antu-g-tu-m/-Ø.
D’ojbaru
orphan
i-n’antu-g-tu-m/-Ø.
be-
desid
-
iter
-PRES-
1sg
.
sbjv
/-
2sg
.
sbjv
I / you want to be an orphan.
References
Tereshchenko 1979
cite
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