Re: CHAT: Nakiltipkaspimak

Daniel Andreasson wrote:
> What!? Holy macarony! You're right! I wonder why I did that. For some
> reason I seem to prefer that order subconsciously.
Then go for it!  :-)  Utakassí places incorporated nouns *immediately*
before the verb, after any inflectional prefixes.  Like, say, "I caused
him to understand Utakassí":
Flutakassizibútasku
F-   lu-   takassi- zibú      -tas     =ku
Past-cause-Utakassí-understand-3SIrrAbs=1stSingNomClitic

Incorporation is limited to simple (i.e., unmodified) nouns in the
instrumental case (usually a "primary" instrumental, i.e., not one
caused by a special voice).  Also, verbs of Mental Action Type II
require that inanimate patients be incorporated, they are verbs like
_zibú_.  If a patient is "complex", then the dummy noun _fúnu_ (that one
previously mentioned) is incorporated in its place.  Animate patients
are in instrumental.

There are a couple of other verbs that allow incorporation of patients,
such as _glí_ (to make) and _labí_ (to give), at least in some dialects.