Object incorporation: Difference between revisions

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Object incorporation is when an object forms a unit with the verb and it moves to be with a verb. This results in VOS word order.

Determiners and content clauses lose their original tone and gain the tone. Nouns work a bit differently; see examples below.

Examples

Haqbaı	jí	báq	tuze
cook	1s	gnr	soup
"I cook soup."

Haqbaı	bâq	tuze	jí
cook	gnr	soup	1s
"I soup-cook."

As you can see, the object, báq tuze gets moved to the left to be with the verb, haqbaı. As a result of this new reördering, báq's gets changed to to make sure that it doesn't mean:

Haqbaı	báq	tuze	jí
cook	gnr	soup	1s
"Soup-kind cooks me."

I hope we're not having some sort of soup revolution!

The same happens with pronouns.

Maı	jí	súq
love	1s	2s
"I love you."

Maı	sûq	jí
love	2s	1s
"I love-you."

Nouns work a bit differently. Instead of directly gaining , they get lô before them.

Cho	jí	káto
like	1s	cat
"I like the cat."

Cho	lô	kato	jí
like	the	cat	1s
"I like-the-cat."

This is to avoid making an adjunct (adverb or preposition).

Cho	kâto	jí
like	cat	1s
"Like cat I."

We're not trying to use kato as a preposition (because it doesn't make any sense), so lô is used.

@@ Line 40: / Line 40: @@
 {|
 |Haqbaı
-| style="color:red" |b'''á'''q
+|{{red|b'''á'''q}}
 |tuze
 |jí
@@ Line 49: / Line 49: @@
 | style="font-variant:small-caps" |1s
 |-
-| colspan="4" style="color:red" |''"Soup-kind cooks me."''
+| colspan="4" |{{red|''"Soup-kind cooks me."''}}
 |}
 I hope we're not having some sort of soup revolution!
@@ Line 112: / Line 112: @@
 {|
 |Cho
-| style="color:red" |k'''â'''to
+|{{red|k'''â'''to}}
 |jí
 |-
@@ Line 119: / Line 119: @@
 |1s
 |-
-| colspan="3" style="color:red" |''"Like cat I."''
+| colspan="3" |{{red|''"Like cat I."''}}
 |}
 We're not trying to use {{t|kato}} as a preposition (because it doesn't make any sense), so {{t|lô}} is used.