pali: Difference between revisions

| alt = A blacksmith working

===Drift from "do" sense===

{{Needs work|1=Not sure how to call the "X li Y e Z" = "X makes Z Y" construction. Apart from that, do other communities outside of ma pona do this? When did people *start* doing it?|2=section}}

[[Historical]]ly and in {{lipu pu}}, the word {{tp|pali}} was often used as a generic verb meaning "to do". This has since become notably less popular, an instance of {{w|semantic drift}}.<ref name="palint">{{cite web|url=https://mun.la/sona/palint|title=palin't|author={{tok|[[jan Kekan San]]}}|website=mun.la|publisher=|access-date=2024-01-21}}</ref> This drift is sometimes referred to as '''{{tp|pali}}n't'''.

|sina pali e seme?

|sina pali e seme

Many speakers now prefer more direct constructions with a causative predicate.{{citation needed}} This may have motivated the change.

|ona li pali e ni: mi pona.

|ona li pali e ni2 {{idsp}} mi pona