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'Father was coughing.' (12.121)
b. Unraised verbal complement

हम देखनी 'क बाबुजी खMखत रहनी ।
ɦʌm dekʰni ki bɑbuji kʰõkʰʌt rʌɦni

ɦʌm dekʰ-ni ki bɑbu-ji kʰõkʰ-ʌt rʌɦ-ni
1SG.NOM see-PST.H comp father-H cough-IMPF live-PST.H

'I saw that father was coughing.' (12.122)
c. Raised object

हम बाबुजी के खsखत देखनी ।

ɦʌm bɑbuji ke kʰõkʰʌt dekʰni
ɦʌm bɑbu-ji ke kʰõkʰ-ʌt dekʰ-ni
1SG father-H DAT cough-IMPF see-PST.H

'I saw father coughing.' (12.123)
d. Raised subject

बाबुजी खsखत लगनी ।

bɑbuji kʰõkʰʌt lʌɡni
bɑbu-ji kʰõkʰ-ʌt lɑɡ-ni
father-H cough-IMPF feel-PST.H

'Father seemed (to me) to be coughing.' (12.124)
बाबुजी खsखत लउकनी ।

bɑbuji kʰõkʰʌt lʌukni

bɑbu-ji kʰõkʰ-ʌt lʌuk-ni
father-H cough-IMPF look-PST.H
'Father was seen coughing.' (12.125)

There are two types of evaluative adjectives which raising to subject may also occur

with. The first type includes आसान /ɑsɑn/ 'easy', कcठन /kʌʈʰin/ 'hard' that semantically
focuses on someone other than the raised NP. That other person is the subject of the

semantic leitmotif proposition, whose object is the raised NP, as shown in (18a-d).
(18) a. Semantic leitmotif

ऊ राजु के समझावेली ।
u rɑju ke sʌmȷ ̈ ɑweli

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