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c. Artwe re kenhe kutne-rle ne-ke relhe
man 3SGS but ignorant.of-Foc be-pc woman
re-rle kwele kweke re-nhe yerne-tyerte-nge
3SGA-THAT QUOT little 3SG-ACC send-RH-ABL
kwatye-werne nyente artnerre-ke-nhe-rle.ne-tyeke kwele.
water-ALL one crawl-?-DO PAST-coNT-puRP QUOT
"But the man did not know that the woman used to send the
baby to crawl to the water hole on its own."
d. Artwe-le Herne-ke ile-ke relhe-le-rle ikwere
man-ERG IDL-DAT tell-pc woman-ERG- 3SGDAT
arlke-tyenhe.
call out-NPc
"The man told us that a woman will call out to him."Finally, perception verbs may select for a non-finite clausal complement
which conveys an event that is perceived by the senses of the subject of the
perception verb. The verb of the perception complement has -rlenge, which
is identical to the different subject switch-reference morpheme, as the final
suffix in the stem, as shown in (6). Even though the different subject
switch-reference morpheme is used to mark perception complements, there
is no entailment that the subject of a perception complement is referentially
different from the matrix clause subject. When the subject of the matrix
clause and the perception complement are identical, the subject of the per
ception complement is omitted. Further, note that in (6a) the notional sub
ject of the perception complement is represented as the object of the per
ception verb, while in (6b) the complement clearly contains its subject and
it would appear that the whole perception complement is functioning as the
undergoer of the transitive perception verb.^4 Perception complements tend
to follow the verb upon which they are dependent.
(6) a ..., kenhe aherre re kem-irre-me-le ne-ke are-me-le
..., but kangaroo 3SG s get up-INCH-NPP-ss sit-pc see-NPP-ss
wenke re-nhe petye-rlenge ikwere-werne-thepe
yng. woman 3SG-ACC come-Ds 3sG-DAT-ALL-wards
"..., but the kangaroo raised himself up and sat watching her,
the young woman, coming towards him."