A Grammar of Madurese

364 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (123) Itai e-ka-loppa-en sengko' ja' Adi a-kerem paket dha' aba'engi Ita OV-KA-forget-LOC I COM ...

Relative clauses 365 In (127), nase' precedes both the matrix adverbial bari' ‘yesterday’ and the complementizer ja', so it is a ...

366 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (131) koceng se ngeco' juko' cat REL AV.steal fish ‘the cat that stole the fish’ (132) buku se ...

Relative clauses 367 vized, actor voice is required. If the theme of a transitive verb (or its possessor) is to be relativized, ...

368 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (139) Badha settong koburan [se sampe' sateya paggun e-entar-e bannya' exist one grave REL unti ...

Relative clauses 369 (143) [Se masthe-yagi mate] jiya banne kake. REL should-AGI die this no you ‘The one who decides death is n ...

370 Chapter 11 Complex sentences that adjectival predicates when used attributively are generally included in a relative clause. ...

Relative clauses 371 The nominalizations in (149) and (150) are result nominals (see Chapter 4 sec- tion 1.2.2). Thus, the resul ...

372 Chapter 11 Complex sentences (157) a. *Reng lake' pokol-an-na Ali sateya badha e roma sake'. man hit-NOM-DEF Ali now exist a ...

Complements of nominals 373 In (160), roma ‘house’ is modified by kennengnganna engko' tatemmo tang bine ‘the place that I met m ...

374 Chapter 11 Complex sentences 9. Clefts Cleft structures in Madurese take the same morphology as relative clauses and are sub ...

Clefts 375 As with relative clauses, clefting of an oblique argument, such as a goal, gener- ally requires the appropriate verba ...

376 Chapter 11 Complex sentences As clefts consists of a NP predicate and a headless relative clause, just as is true of relativ ...

Clefts 377 b. Deni se kowat. Deni REL strong ‘Deni is who is strong.’ (180) a. Siti se neng taman. Siti REL at park ‘Siti is who ...

378 Chapter 11 Complex sentences b. Guru-na se daddi Marlena. teacher-DEF REL become Marlena ‘The teacher is who is Marlena.’ (m ...

Clefts 379 book. This is due to the combination of the cleft construction and the adverbial keya ‘too’. The use of keya implies ...

380 Chapter 11 Complex sentences That the presuppositional clause asserts the existence of the state of af- fairs is also indica ...

Clefts 381 In (191), A asserts that out of the candidate set, Siti is the only one who bought a car. The presupposition in A’s s ...

382 Chapter 11 Complex sentences rectness of this analysis for Madurese is available from the distribution of the adverbial elem ...

Clefts 383 In cleft structures, however, this prohibition is apparently relaxed. In the exchanges between A and B in (195) and ( ...