This work was intended to facilitate the instruction of religious doctrine in the regions surrounding the Mayo and Yaqui rivers, as well as to allow other evangelists to become acquainted with the languages of the region. However, they are only found within narrative texts in direct speech. Serial verb constructions are used extensively in Dela to express a variety of clause combinations and semantic functions, such as purpose, motion, direction, aspect and manner. Hence, the alignment pattern of bi-transitive clauses in Mayo is doubleobject marking or secundative: 21 However, in 20a the indirect object receives a directional marker thus making the alignment pattern neutral. The grammar describes and discusses issues from the phonology of the language to its discourse structure.
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