Sunday, February 5, 2012

Verbs with and without the marker of psychological attitude in Copala Triqui

In a previous posts here and here, I gave examples of a morpheme ni'yaj (literally 'see') that shows up before the complements of certain psychological attitudes.

These three examples all show the verb chuman rá 'believe'.  When the object is unspecified or inanimate, we do not get the morpheme ni'yaj.

But when the object is human 'Jesus', then the morpheme ni'yaj appears.  This version of 'believe' means something like 'believe in', so it implies a psychological attitude toward someone.




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