In a previous post, I talked about the unusual verb ni'yaj in Copala Triqui, which is used to convey a psychological attitude by some participant in a text toward another participant.
The following example is interesting, since 'illuminate/shine' isn't a psychological verb. But in combination with ni'yaj, we get the reading 'It seemed to me as if his face was shining'. Here the overlap with another sense of ni'yaj 'see' is fairly clear, but not all psychological uses involve vision.
The following example is interesting, since 'illuminate/shine' isn't a psychological verb. But in combination with ni'yaj, we get the reading 'It seemed to me as if his face was shining'. Here the overlap with another sense of ni'yaj 'see' is fairly clear, but not all psychological uses involve vision.
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This edges into a meaning like 'it seemed to me like…'
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