Test Sentences, 134

Continuing with Gary’s list:

  1. I feel ashamed of myself.

This is not actually a reflexive, or rather, it doesn’t have to be. As a simpler “I am ashamed”, we have “I go about in shame.”

175. lene eyaŋi iɬɛt.

lene
1P.MTsg
ey-
in
aŋi
aŋi.IMP
iɬɛt
shame.SSsg

But then I asked myself how would I say “I am ashamed of him.”

lene mava iɬɛtnɛn ono.

lene
1P.MTsg
mava
3P.MTsg
iɬɛt
shame.SSsg
-nɛn
with
ono
ono

Which means one could say:

175. lenada iɬɛtnɛn ono.

lenada
1P.MTsg.REFL
iɬɛt
shame.SSsg
-nɛn
with
ono
ono

but the previous sentence is more likely to be found in the wild (so to speak).

Questions?