3.1.2.3. Exhaustive
The verb is inflected with exhaustive (distributive) when an event is distributed over persons as in the sentence “The teacher gave a candy to each student.”. Exhaustive verb forms are articulated with the reduplication of the verb. However, the number of repetitions does not necessarily represent the number of people involved in the event.
In an example such as the one below, the (backward-agreeing) verb starts at a location on the ipsilateral side and moves towards a location on the contralateral side of the signing space. But subsequently, while moving towards the ipsilateral side, the forward movement of the base form is reduplicated (although the reduplicants are likely to have a reduced movement).
1ınvıte3a 1ınvıte3b 1ınvıte3c
‘They each invited me.’