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Intent

The commonest intent construction has the structure VB-ÁÔ£ laam-ýá nnu + Éç iru.

¼Ô¨ ؽԴÁÔ£ýá Éç¡ÞØŨ
naan poohalaamnnu irukkreen. `I intend to go.'

In most of these constructions the copula Éç iru can be replaced by the verb ×¼×Æ nene `think, hope' without semantic change, except that the constructions with ×¼×Æ nene seem to be somewhat more DEFINITE in intent.



Haorld_F.Schiffman