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Incorporation of patients into the verb
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Noun Incorporation

Nouns can be incorporated into verbs if they are patients. This has a similar effect as to using the indefinite article in English.

Samásen cír
Ø-s-a-más-en
PFVPerfective (aspect)
completed action
-1First person (person)
speaker, signer, etc; I
>3Third person (person)
neither speaker nor addressee
-ACTActive voice (valency, volition)
the subject acts, voluntarily
-see-DIREDirect evidential (evidentiality)
speaker has direct knowledge
Ø-cír
TRNTransnumeral (number)
number is unspecified
-person

I see a/the person

Atacírmásen
Ø-at-a-cír-más-en
PFVPerfective (aspect)
completed action
-1First person (person)
speaker, signer, etc; I
.ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument
-ACTActive voice (valency, volition)
the subject acts, voluntarily
-person-see-DIREDirect evidential (evidentiality)
speaker has direct knowledge

I see a person
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