kayat + ti + Action
Wanting to Do Something
Kayat + attached actor + ti + actor-focus action expresses wanting to act oneself.
How It Works
In the illustrated shared-actor pattern, kayat carries its actor and ti introduces an action expression without repeating that actor. In Kayatko ti agawid, the speaker wants to go home and would perform the action. The illustrated frame uses actor-focus actions.
Other participants remain expressed as required by the embedded verb. A buying action can retain an iti-marked object. Compare Kayatko ti agawid, “I want to go home,” with Kayatko nga agawid ni Rosa, “I want Rosa to go home.” The second clause names its own performer.
Learn these actor-focus action complements as complete constructions; other voices need their own established frames. Focusing a desired object can change the embedded verb and clause frame. This desire pattern does not determine masapul’s syntax.
Examples (3)
- Kayatko ti agawid.
I want to go home.
Ko supplies the shared actor.
- Kayatmo ti gumatang iti libro.
You want to buy a book.
The buying action retains its object.
- Kayatko nga agawid ni Rosa.
I want Rosa to go home.
The contrast names a separate actor.
How It Connects
Learn This First
A ti-marked action can share the actor of kayat.
Related Patterns
- Who Performs a Needed Action
Develops shared and independently expressed actors.
Level 4 - An Event Used as a Noun Phrase
Explains actions in marked argument positions.
Level 3 - Complement a / ngaReporting a Thought or Fact
Provides the linked-clause contrast.
Level 3 - Following Who Does What
Tracks the embedded verb’s participants.
Level 2
Words in This Pattern
Practice kayat + ti + Action in Bubblegum
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