In other agentive verbs

13.6.3 In other agentive verbs

Interrogative 2.person past, clause type ST1 13.74 khøt jampu-la phim=pa? 2SG Kathmandu-DAT go.come[PST]=Q ‘Did you go to Kathmandu?’ Declarative 1.person past, clause type ST1, affirmative answer to 13.74 13 .75 ŋa jampu-la phim-pen. 1SG Kathmandu-DAT go.come[PST]-1PST ‘I went to Kathmandu.’ Typically only the verb occurs in an answer like this, phim-pen. Negated declarative 1.person past, an answer to 13.74 13.76 mat-phin. NEG-go.come[PST] ‘I did not go to Kathmandu.’ This is just like in 13.72. The verb has past tense root and therefore it would not qualify for a negated imperative. Interrog ative, 3.person past 13 .77 aku passaŋ jampu-la phim-pa bek=ka? uncle passang home-DAT go.come[PST]-NMLZ;Q AUX=Q ‘Did uncle Passang go to Kathmandu and come back?’ Examples 13.74–13.76 show that there is no agreement pattern with the past tense forms. Declarative 1.person nonpast, clause type ST1 13 .78 ŋa jampu-la ɖo-ken. 1SG Kathmandu-DAT go-NMLZ;CONJ ‘I’ll go to Kathmandu.’ Or: ‘I go to Kathmandu.’ Inte rrogative 2.person nonpast 13.79 khøt jampu-la ɖo-ken? 2SG Kathmandu-DAT go-NMLZ;CONJ.Q ‘Will you go to Kathmandu?’ Or: ‘Do you go to Kathmandu?’ The examples 13.78 and 13.79 qualify for conjunct forms. The verb is agentive and the tense is nonpast. Negated 2.person interrogative 13.80 khøt jampu-la mit- ɖo-ken? 2SG Kathmandu-DAT NEG-go-NMLZ;CONJ.Q ‘Do you not go to Kathmandu?’ Negated declarative 1.person, answer to 13.79 or to 13.80 13.81 mit- ɖo. NEG-go[NPST] ‘I do not go to Kathmandu.’ There is no morpheme in this clause that marks it as negated 1.person nonpast. The anticipated negated answer mit- ɖo-ken is not acceptable as a finite verb but is acceptable as negated headless subject relative clause, ‘one who does not go’ see more about relative clauses in section 17.2. Just for the sake of interest I give an example of this same conjunct marker used with a non- agentive verb: 13 .82 raŋ pakka-la mit-thøn-na ŋa okma-la thakpa taa-na 2SG outside-DAT NEG-come.out-NFNT1 1SG neck-DAT rope tie.up-NFNT1 ɕi ɖo-ken sin-na uu thakpa taa-pa bet. die go-NMLZ;CONJ say-NFNT1 frustr. rope tie.up-NMLZ;Q AUX okma di-la. TE21 neck DEF-DAT ‘“If you do not come outside, I am going to tie a rope around my neck and die.”’ Or: ‘… “I am going to commit suicide by tying a rope around my neck.”’ Of course, ‘to die’ is not an intentional verb. However, it is not difficult to realize that in this example the reference is to suicide, an intentional act. The character of this story did not have real intention to die but this was a threat to force the princess to tell her story. If someone yields to the idea that he is not going to recover but is going to have a natural death he would say, 13.83 jak hariŋ ŋa ɕi-ken pet. SAP today 1SG die-NMLZ;CONJ AUX ‘I have accepted that I will die today.’ Note that the conjunct verb form is not used. Speaker is terminally sick.

13.6.4 An alternative way to analyze conjunct marker -ken