A Grammar of Madurese

164 Chapter 6 Clause types 5. Exclamatory clauses Exclamatory interjections can be used with most simple clauses indicating the ...

Hortative clauses 165 (90) Ce' penter-ra ana'-eng ba'eng! very smart-DEF child-DEF you ‘How smart your child is!’ In this exclam ...

166 Chapter 6 Clause types (95) Mara tempak bal-la! HORT kick ball-DEF ‘Let’s kick the ball!’ There is some variability with res ...

Imperative clauses 167 Finally, ayu' and mara are not restricted to use in hortative clauses in which the speaker will act with ...

168 Chapter 6 Clause types (107) Kerem sorat dha' Nabun! send letter to Nabun ‘Send a/the letter to Nabun!’ (108) Bagi buku reya ...

Imperative clauses 169 b. *E-bagi buku reya dha' Hasan! OV-give book this to Hasan (Give this book to Hasan!) In this regard, Ma ...

170 Chapter 6 Clause types The reduplication serves to emphasize the command of the speaker as well as to indicate that the proh ...

Comparative and superlative clauses 171 (124) Penter-ran Ita bi' Siti. smart-AN Ita with Siti ‘Ita is smarter than Siti.’ The ot ...

172 Chapter 6 Clause types is preferred. (129) a. Hanina padha penter-ra bi' Sinap. Hanina same smart-DEF with Sinap ‘Hanina is ...

Comparative and superlative clauses 173 (133) Pottra-na Bu Nus lebbi bannya' katembang Bu Rita. child-DEF Mrs Nus more many than ...

174 Chapter 6 Clause types (141) Buku-na Ali padha bannya'-eng bi' buku-na Bambang. book-DEF Ali same many-DEF with book-DEF Bam ...

Topic-comment structure 175 9. Topic-comment structure While most sentences consist of a subject and a predicate with its comple ...

176 Chapter 6 Clause types b. Bengko mera rowa, jendela-na biyasana kotor. house red that window-DEF usual dirty ‘That red house ...

Subject, definiteness and specificity 177 (152) a. Anom-ma Satimma e-tangkep bi' polisi. uncle-DEF Satimma OV-catch by police ‘S ...

178 Chapter 6 Clause types (155) Jakarta ce' me-ramme-na. Jakarta very RED-noisy-DEF ‘Jakarta is very noisy.’ Pronouns take a s ...

Subject, definiteness and specificity 179 (163) Ana' bine'-na Ina melle permen kaangguy kanca-na. daughter-DEF Ina AV.buy candy ...

180 Chapter 6 Clause types (170) Badha reng lake' se andhi' ana' settong nyama-na Bang Pote. exist man REL have child one name-D ...

Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases This chapter examines the structure of the noun phrase (NP). The elements that comprise the ...

182 Chapter 7 Nominals and noun phrases They are surveyed here. 2.1 Nominal inflection Other than perhaps the definite morpheme ...

Nominal morphology 183 (7) Geddhang (se) re-mera jiya kodu e-massa' gallu. banana REL RED-red this should OV-cook before ‘These ...