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Datapoint Maricopa / The Optative

Language
Genus: Yuman, Family: Hokan
Feature
The Optative by Nina Dobrushina , Johan van der Auwera and Valentin Goussev
Value
Inflectional optative present
References

Examples

What can I do?
Kawish  '-we-lya? 
what 1-do-OPT

 

I wish I were a horse
qwaaqt-sh ‘-do-lya
horse-SUBJ 1-be-OPT