A Grammar of Madurese

344 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (42) Ja'/mon Siti melle roma anyar bud.hu. COMP/if Siti AV.buy house new stupid ‘That Siti boug ...

Complementation 345 (46) Bid-abid-da rato pas mereng ana’ bine’-eng tong-settong-nga jareya RED-long-DEF king then AV-hear daugh ...

346 Chapter 11 Complex sentences kasta ‘regret’ kera ‘think/guess’ lapor ‘report’ tanya('agi) ‘ask’ yaken ‘sure’ (50) Verbs disa ...

Sentential subjects 347 tences, although others judge them acceptable with either form. As mon is more widely accepted, it occur ...

348 Chapter 11 Complex sentences If the subject is non-overt or arbitrary, the complementizer need not occur (57a) and (58a), al ...

Sentential subjects 349 The second group of predicates which regularly admit sentential subjects in basic usage is causative pre ...

350 Chapter 11 Complex sentences 4. Control Unlike predicates taking object complements that can occur with the subordinat ing c ...

Control 351 As illustrated in (72), coba' ‘try’ also allows a non-corferential actor in the complement. (72) Ali nyoba' Bambang ...

352 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (75) %Magi permen-na dha' embug-ga se e-jajal Ina ban Siti. AV.give candy-DEF to eld.sister-DEF ...

Control 353 coercion is impossible. The sentences in (79) and (80), the actor voice counter- parts of (77) and (78), are unaccep ...

354 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (83) a. Ali nyoba' ma-becce’ sapedha motor-ra bi’ obing. Ali AV.try AV.CS-good motorcycle-DEF w ...

Aspectual predicates 355 (86) Kaka' terros ng-eccet bengko rowa. eld.brother continue AV-paint house that ‘Big Brother continued ...

356 Chapter 11 Complex sentences This structure is unavailable with other matrix predicates. (93) *Moso Embuk, karces-sa la enga ...

Prolepsis 357 6. Prolepsis Most verbs that take clausal object complements can also occur in structures in which an argument of ...

358 Chapter 11 Complex sentences bedded clauses (see Chung 1976 and Kana 1986 for Indonesian, Davies 1990 for Javanese, Arka 200 ...

Prolepsis 359 b. Guru-na ng-yaken-ne Bambang ja' bakal lulus ujiyan. teacher-DEF AV-sure-LOC Bambang COMP will pass exam ‘The te ...

360 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (106) a. Soleha enga' ka nyama-na guru-na. Soleha remember to name-DEF teacher-DEF ‘Soleha reme ...

Prolepsis 361 The verb kera is is exceptional with respect to the lack of suffixal morphology. The pairs of sentences in (110) a ...

362 Chapter 11 Complex sentences Speakers report that although the same basic state of affairs is presented in the pair in (112) ...

Prolepsis 363 Overt pronouns are also acceptable in the embedded clauses in other examples. There is a preference for the overt ...