13.3 Jussive and "subjunctive" clauses 679'be incumbent on'. The person is direct object, while the action (often a VblN)
is subject (823).(823) i-wdr-\t
3MaSgS-be.on.Reslt-\3MaSgO
fae-raeras sn t-erse]
[Sg-slaughter.VblN Poss Fe-sheep]
'He should (=ought to) slaughter a sheep.'I have also recorded a negative 'should not' or 'may not' ('not be allowed
to') construction with the existential verb -νΐΐυ- (§7.3.2.11) plus dative (824).
The verb agrees with the VblN subject, so a syntactically more revealing gloss
is '(action) be inadvisable or disallowed for (sb)'. Any clitics, including
pronominal PPs, that are logically associated with the VblN remain cliticized
to it.
(824) a. wasr-\ha-s t-alla t-ekle
Neg-\Dat-3Sg 3FeSgS-exist.PerfN Fe-go.VbIN
'He (or she) should not go.' [Hm]
b. waer-\ha-k i-ΙΙά [ae-safu-\ha-s]
Neg-\Dat-2MaSg 3MaSgS-exist [Sg-greeting-\Dat-3Sg]
'You-MaSg may not greet him (or her).' [K-d]When the sense is 'X obligate Y (to do something)' with an explicit agent
of causation, a verb like -s-vhvssvl- 'obligate, oblige, compel' is used; see
(450) in §8.1.1.
13.3.4 'warn' (-vqgvh-) and 'advise' (-s-vmvtvr-)The verbs -vqgvh- 'warn' and -s-vmvtvr- 'advise' (the latter is causative in
form) take a-\d complements under the scope of an outer preposition. For
'warn' the preposition is Dative, so the complement clause is formally
identical to a purposive clause (825).
(825) i-gg£eh-\a-hi
Caus-warn.PerfP-\0-lSg
[y a-\d wasr sass-aer]
[Dat DemAComit Neg drink.LoImpfN-lSgS]
'He warned me not (ever) to drink.'
For 'advise' the preposition is Comitative (826).