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Olfactory perception
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The unmarked verb of olfactory perception is not normally used as an intransitive evidential copula.

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The olfactory verb is not normally used in an evidential construction, as in the sentence below:

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*It rûkt ferkeard (wat se dogge)
it smells wrong what they do
It smells wrong (that they are doing)

To the extent that this sentence can receive the right interpretation, it has the feel of an unusual metaphor or of a joke.

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