Hapi
pihi=á tà-háa-a tà-ihxoì-a koí kì-tóíh-a-xapa
girl=VOC IMPV-go-2/3 IMPV-clean-2/3 hut 3SG:POSS-be.tidy-NMZ-PURP
‘Girl, go now and clean the hut in order for it to be tidy.’
Notes
- since this is an example containing an imperative, let us talk about Hapi imperatives. Inspired by Jarawara, an Arawá language from Southern Amazonia, Hapi distinguishes three types of imperatives. There's the proximal positive imperative tà-, the distal positive imperative hi- and the negative imperative xi-. All three of those go into the 'mode' slot of the verb stratum. In this context, proximal and distal imperative refer to the deixis of the expressed event, e.g. "do it here/now" for proximal and "do it in some distant time or place" for distal imperatives.
- this is also an example for a sequential SVC. More on that in an upcoming reddit post of mine!
- Hapi expresses purposive meanings using nominalizations + the marker -xapa. The verb stem is first nominalized by the suffix -(h)a, and subsequently receives a possessive prefix which is concordant to the subject of the purposive clause. Finally, the purposive suffix -xapa is attached.
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