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meyah-t `work at, process'<br />
báax-t `play'<br />
lap' `hold in one's fist'<br />
us-t `blow'<br />
kanáan-t `care'<br />
kax(an)-t `search'<br />
pàakat `look at'<br />
cha'n-t `watch'<br />
pa't `wait for, expect'.<br />
All of these are transitive verbs.<br />
4.4.2.1.3. Human - proposition<br />
tukul (v/tr) `think'<br />
pa't (v/tr) `expect'.<br />
These are transitive verbs.<br />
4.4.2.1.4. Animate – animate<br />
pay `avoid; bullfight'<br />
ts'ak `treat'<br />
meyah-t `serve'<br />
tséen-t `feed'<br />
áan-t `help'<br />
tsay-pàach-t `follow'<br />
t'àan `speak, call'<br />
àawat `call, cry'.<br />
These are all transitive verbs.<br />
4.4.2.1.5. Animate - thing<br />
il `see, look'<br />
u'y `hear, listen, feel, smell'<br />
úutsben-t `smell at, sniff'<br />
mùuk'yah-t `tolerate, stand'<br />
kóol `pull'<br />
tul `push'<br />
tíit `shake'<br />
la'ch `scratch'<br />
k'áak'-t `barbecue'<br />
ta' (v/itr -0) `shit'<br />
wíix (v/itr -0) `urinate'.<br />
Christian Lehmann<br />
These are mostly transitive verbs. The class contains the perception verbs, which allow potential<br />
control. YM is among the languages that distinguishes only two basic perception predicates, `see' and<br />
all the rest (cf. Viberg 1984). The two intransitive verbs take effected objects.
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