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Hapi

tóíha-aí títo-a=í hoi-a=ká=xa koí-haí

news-NEXT.TO hear-2/3=S/A>S(SE) be.at-2/3=DECL=CONT hut-NEXT.TO

‘Listening to the news, he is standing outside of his hut.’

Notes

  • The Hapi people know neither of balconies nor of newspapers, so I had to change some words: 'reading the newspaper' became 'listening to the news [someone else is telling]' and 'on the balcony' became 'outside of [his] hut'.
  • there's some differential argument marking happening with the O of títo 'to hear'; you'd usually expect tóíha to be in the unmarked absolutive case, but since it's a stimulus and concerns sensory perception, it takes the 'next to' relational case instead.
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