We spent some time today working with our Triqui speaker on the psych verbs that use ni'yaj as a light verb to introduce a complement. (Discussed here, here, here, here, and here).
I was delighted to find out that while our speaker accepts and uses ni'yaj, he more frequently suggests ne'e as the marker of psych complement. The connection is that the other sense of ni'yaj is 'look at; mirar', while ne'e also means 'see; ver'. Thus two different verbs of perception are used to introduce the psych complement.
Here's an example in the entry for the verb 'be jealous':
And here is the entry for one of the verbs that means 'like':
A particularly interesting example is 'I like the music very much'. This shows the degree to which ne'e is grammaticized here, since one does not literally see the music.
Here is an example from the New Testament with ne'e(n):
I was delighted to find out that while our speaker accepts and uses ni'yaj, he more frequently suggests ne'e as the marker of psych complement. The connection is that the other sense of ni'yaj is 'look at; mirar', while ne'e also means 'see; ver'. Thus two different verbs of perception are used to introduce the psych complement.
Here's an example in the entry for the verb 'be jealous':
And here is the entry for one of the verbs that means 'like':
A particularly interesting example is 'I like the music very much'. This shows the degree to which ne'e is grammaticized here, since one does not literally see the music.
Here is an example from the New Testament with ne'e(n):
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