My friend Christian in his blog post here, asks a question about adverbs that intervene between the verb and the 1st person clitic subject. That prompted me to start searching my corpus for examples of adverbs that appear between the verb and the subject. (I don't have 1st person examples for all these, so I need to verify with a speaker that the 1st person appears in the same place as other subjects.)
Here's my first example, with the adverb uun 'just, only':
Here's my first example, with the adverb uun 'just, only':
The next is yuve 'secretly':
More examples to come in future posts, but the logic of this argument is to look at a full range of items that appear in this position, and to ask whether it is sensible to think of all such adverbs as incorporated.
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These are interesting examples and it would be really cool to look at this. Though, what struck me was also the common V + rúáa (or ráa) construction in the Triqui languages. You always get person marking on this verb, whether it has a desiderative meaning (e.g. want to do X) or a compositional one (e.g. in most emotion/perception verbs). Is this just an example of another incorporated word, albeit more heavily grammaticalized? In sum, are these verbal and adverbial patterns related somehow?
Another notable thing about the verbal patterns is the fact that aspect marking is always on the first verb, though many linguists would want to analyze these as non-finite.
(PS: I know that in this particular case, we have clear cognates with Zapotecan laža 'heart', which is used in similar constructions.)
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