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The Importance of Copulas in Grammar
The argument structure for a copula is a little bit just weird in general, like in any language. It's not the, it's not describing action on anything. This is an identity relationship usually. And there are three of them and there are three prefixes that people disagree on what they mean. So basically you have three applicatives. You have an o prefix, which, uh, basically marks locations. The verb to kill, which is rike, is the causative of rai, which means to die. Even very common verbs like to give,. verb to give is corre and it's quite simply the cause of corre - ha.