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'I threw the ball' (3) N-a-jugun-iy-e 1SGS-PST-throw-APPL-PERF Mukamana Mukamana umu-pira. 3-ball 'I threw Mukamana the ball.' OR 'I threw the ball for Mukamana. The variation in the interpretation of the applicative touches on an additional point: the semantic role assigned to the applied object is often in part contingent upon the meaning of the verb, a fact that has gone almost completely unnoticed in previous work. For example, consider the following data from Kinyarwanda, where in (4b), the applied object of the verb gu-teka 'to cook' is the general location where the event took place, while in (5), the applied object of the verb kw-ambuka 'to cross' is the source of the motion event. (4) a. Mukamana Mukamana y-a-tets-e. 1S-PST-cook-PERF 'Mukamana cooked.' b. Mukamana Mukamana y-a-tek-eye 1S-PST-cook-APPL-PERF mu 18 gi-koni. 7-kitchen 'Mukamana cooked in the kitchen.'
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