A Grammar of Madurese

144 Chapter 5 Reduplication (53) buwa ‘fruit’ wa'-buwa'-an ‘fruits’ tamenan ‘plant’ men-tamen-an ‘(various kinds of) plants’ dau ...

Functions of reduplication 145 (57) roma ‘house’ ma'-roma'an ‘toy house’ barung ‘warung’ rung-barungan ‘toy shop’ bintang ‘star’ ...

146 Chapter 5 Reduplication Finally, there are a number of forms that occur only in reduplicated form, the apparent root never o ...

Functions of reduplication 147 Also, reduplicated adjectives are often used adverbially without additional mor- phology. (66) on ...

148 Chapter 5 Reduplication compound or the entire compound undergoes total reduplication. (70) gula bato ‘lump sugar’ gula bato ...

Chapter 6 Clause types This chapter provides an overview of simplex clauses in Madurese, both verbal and non-verbal, declarative ...

150 Chapter 6 Clause types (3) a. mored penter student smart ‘smart student’ b. bengko raja house big ‘big house’ Relative claus ...

Non-verbal clauses 151 positional phrase moso Joko Tole ‘by Joko Tole’. Although the word order of everyday speech can be quite ...

152 Chapter 6 Clause types (12) Polo se kene' rowa, Kangean. island REL small that Kangean ‘That small island is Kangean.’ Locat ...

Non-verbal clauses 153 As redundant functional elements (including prepositions in some situations) are omissible, it might be c ...

154 Chapter 6 Clause types (27) Atin andhi' tello ana'. Atin have three offspring ‘Atin has three children.’ (28) Siti andhi' sa ...

Existential clauses 155 In each of these sentences, the NP in question is indefinite, regardless of how complex the NP may be. I ...

156 Chapter 6 Clause types (40) Adha' oreng namen. not.exist person AV.plant ‘Nobody plants it.’ (41) Adha' nyambit. not.exist A ...

Verbal clauses 157 4. Verbal clauses As is to be expected, many declarative sentences have clauses in which the pre- dicate is a ...

158 Chapter 6 Clause types (50) Ale' labu dhari korse. yngr.sibling fall from chair ‘Little Brother fell from the chair.’ (51) B ...

Verbal clauses 159 Other verbs in this class include: abber ‘fly’, bala ‘say’, jalan ‘walk’, kejung ‘sing’, lonca' ‘jump’ maen ‘ ...

160 Chapter 6 Clause types transitive.^3 These predicates describe the state of the subject that results from some external stim ...

Verbal clauses 161 ‘bored’ (70) can occur only with an overt preposition. (68) a. Ebu' peggel bi' Toni. mother angry with Toni ‘ ...

162 Chapter 6 Clause types (74) Rudi parcaja. Rudi believe ‘Rudi believes him.’ (75) Wati enga'. Wati remember ‘Wati remembered ...

Verbal clauses 163 (79) Ita maca tang buku. Ita AV.read my book ‘Ita read my book.’ (80) Bu Yus noles sorat. Mrs Yus AV.write le ...