Test Sentences, 64

Continuing with Gary’s list:

89. The little boy’s father had once been a sailor.

This is relatively straightforward.

89. koda ɨsa ma soba sɛttɛ gɛdɛlɛ tilɛnya dɛstɛ.

So let’s do another:

90. I have lost my blanket.

Again, relatively straightforward. It is exactly like sentence 20 but with a source added to show some causality. Furthermore, the evidential bala is used rather than the zero-marked visual evidential as a way for the speaker (I) to distance her/himself from being deliberately responsible for the state of the blanket. That is I non-volitionally lost the blanket.

90. lene mudɨdɛn tɨŋi dovɨdɛn bala.

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