Linking constructions in Mayrinax Atayal

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Table 3 Verb/predicate types and the selection of linkers in Mayrinax Atayal (II)

Linkers from high to low		gi’	’i’ _H	ru’	na’	mha’	cu’ _M	ga’	ki’ _M	’i’ _M	ki’ _LA	’i’ _LB	’i’ _LC	cu’ _LD
Verb/predicate types		gi’	’i’ _H	ru’	na’	mha’	cu’ _M	ga’	ki’ _M	’i’ _M	ki’ _LA	’i’ _LB	’i’ _LC	cu’ _LD
High-order evaluative	balaiq “good/fortunate”	✓
High-order evaluative	nahriq “pitiful”		✓
Cognition verb	snuawun “to believe”						✓
	lumanglung “to think”			✓		✓
	baqun “to know”			✓			✓
	’ua’ “to hope”				✓
	ma’icug “to be afraid”									✓
Utterance verb	kumaal “to say”					✓
Evidential	asi _evid							✓
Epistemic	ki’i									✓
Epistemic	asi _epis								✓
Deontic	asi _deon										✓
Middle/tough ppredicate												✓
Object control verb												✓
Low adverbial verb (manner/frequency)													✓
Subject control verb													✓
Resultative action verb														✓