Minhast: Difference between revisions
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{{Gloss | {{Gloss | ||
|phrase = Hambin redad, | |phrase = Hambin redad, waššaħkurkitahuš | ||
|IPA = | |IPA = | ||
| morphemes = Hambin redad, wa= | | morphemes = Hambin redad, wa=šak-hurk-tah-u=š | ||
| gloss = NEG.EXIST man CONN= | | gloss = NEG.EXIST man CONN=DESID-harm-2S.ABS-TRANS=IRREAL | ||
| translation = There is no man (here) who wants to harm you. | | translation = There is no man (here) who wants to harm you. | ||
}} | }} | ||
These structures use an S/A pivot for the coreferrent NP of each clause, rather than the expected S/O pivot. This is an example of split ergativity manifesting at the syntactic level in Minhast, which is otherwise very strict in maintaining ergativity at both the morphological and syntactic levels. | |||
===Demonstrative Adverbial Particles=== | ===Demonstrative Adverbial Particles=== | ||