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=====Applicatives===== | =====Applicatives===== | ||
Applicative affixes make a verb's prepositional or oblique object into its direct object (cf. ''be-'' in English ''bemoan'' 'to complain about'). Applicatives are as much a stylistic or pragmatic choice as lexical. Some verbs may use multiple applicative prefixes, when they do so is difficult to predict. | Applicative affixes make a verb's prepositional or oblique object into its direct object (cf. ''be-'' in English ''bemoan'' 'to complain about'). Applicatives are as much a stylistic or pragmatic choice as syntactic (see below) or lexical. Some verbs may use multiple applicative prefixes, when they do so is difficult to predict. | ||
*''di-'' = at, in, by | *''di-'' = at, in, by | ||