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participial strategy
a strategy used in the stative complex predicate construction in which the manner (more generally, stative) component is packaged as a separate primary predication coordinated with the event predication using a deranked complex sentence strategy. In addition, the stative predicate is predicated of, and ideally indexes, (one of) its argument(s). Example: in Sanuma opi-i a kali-palo-ma He worked slowly [lit. being slow, he worked] opi-i be slow is in a deranked form with suffix -i; the suffix, however, indicates that opi slow has the same subject as kali-palo-ma worked -- namely, he. (Section 14.2)
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