Balkan Slavic (Nestorio). Complement subjects for the verb ‘to want’: Overt subject, 1
| ot kračun du vel’igden saka da ja ran’iš u̯ofcata [ti] | ||||||||
ot from | kračun Christmas(M).NOM/ACC.SG | do until | Veligden Easter | sak-a want(IPFV)-PRS.3SG | da MOD.COMP | ja 3SG.F.ACC.CL | ran’-iš feed(IPFV)-PRS.2SG | u̯ofc-a-ta sheep(F)-NOM/ACC.SG-DEF |
| Sheep need to be fed from Christmas until Easter. (NB! Lit. The sheep wants (=impersonal) to be fed). | ||||||||
Type: Naturalistic spoken
Source: Sobolev 2007-2008: 1-54