A Grammar of Madurese

304 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure (89) Ebu nyassa'-agi Mutmainah. mother AV.wash-AGI Mutmainah ‘Mother did laun ...

The suffix -agi 305 (92) a. Sale a-koto' dha' Romlah bab jawab-an. Sale AV-whisper to Romlah about answer-NOM ‘Sale whispered th ...

306 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure b. Ja' labang-nga e-pa-becce'-a are Sennen e-janji-agi Anom COMP door-DEF OV- ...

The suffix -agi 307 2.3 -agi specifying an endpoint The suffix -agi also serves to specify the endpoint of a theme/object moved ...

308 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure In (101a), there is no specification as to where tanana otamana ‘the best soi ...

The suffix -agi 309 b. Diyah mongkos-sagi koran ka sassa'-an. Diyah AV.wrap-AGI newspaper to wash-NOM ‘Diyah wrapped the laundry ...

310 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure can be omitted when the PP is immediately adjacent to the verb, reminiscent o ...

The suffix -agi 311 theme-object pangaselan ‘income’. In (105b), buku forms the root of the actor voice verb abukuwagi ‘to book’ ...

312 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure actor voice morphology, indicating a syntactically transitive structure. (108 ...

The suffix -agi 313 (115) Jawab-an-na e-terrang-ngagi guru dha' red-mored. answer-NOM-DEF OV-clear-AGI teacher to RED-student ‘T ...

314 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure (119) a. Saba' ket-paket rowa neng meja otaba neng korse! put RED-package tha ...

Causatives 315 2.8 The meaning/function of -agi and Indonesian -kan Compared to -e, -agi appears to play a role in more disparat ...

316 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure (123) a. Sinap peggel. Sinap angry ‘Sinap is angry.’ b. Karim ma-peggel Sinap ...

Causatives 317 3.1 Causatives of stative intransitive verbs Stative transitive verbs regularly form causatives through affixatio ...

318 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure influence some of the time. For example, some consider (133) with najemme ‘sh ...

Causatives 319 b. Ale' ma-labu Bapa'. yngr.sibling AV.CS-fall father ‘Little Brother knocked Father down.’ (137) a. Kana' rowa m ...

320 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure (141) a. Na'-kana' a-berka' dha' toko. RED-child AV-run to store ‘The childre ...

Causatives 321 3.3 Causatives of syntactically transitive verbs Those verbs that are syntactically transitive, that is, verbs th ...

322 Chapter 10 Modifications to argument structure c. Ebu' ma-ngerra' rote Marlena. mother AV.CS-AV.slice bread Marlena ‘Mother ...

Causatives 323 the causatives in (147-149) is unavailable with the causatives in (151-153).) In fact, some speakers who accept s ...