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Zenzontepec Chatino, Example 237
La kii ntāátīʔę́ʔ tyúʔoōʔ̨ tzūʔ jlyā.
la
as.far.as
kii
tomorrow
n-tāá-tīʔ=ą̄ʔ
HAB-give-living.core=1SG
tyúʔu=ą̄ʔ
POT.leave=1SG
tzūʔ
towards
jlyā
early
I think I'm leaving early tomorrow.
Comment:
The verb THINK here has a clausal complement, so does not match the target coding frame. The verb LEAVE has an unexpressed locational NP.
Type:
Elicited from speaker
Language
:
Zenzontepec Chatino
Verb forms
:
LEAVE [leave]: nkū-túʔu
THINK [think]: nkā-tāá-tīʔ
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