346 Chapter 11 Complex sentences
kasta ‘regret’
kera ‘think/guess’
lapor ‘report’
tanya('agi) ‘ask’
yaken ‘sure’
(50) Verbs disallowing complements with complementizer (ja'/mon)
coba' ‘try’
endha' ‘willing’
jajal ‘try’
lantor ‘allow’
olleyagi ‘allow’
oman ‘persuade’
pasksa ‘force’
soro ‘order’
terro ‘want’
(51) ‘Aspectual’ predicates
ambu ‘stop’
asel ‘succeed’
kenneng ‘get’
molae ‘start’
terros ‘continue’
(52) Predicates allowing sentential subjects
bahaya ‘dangerous’
budhu ‘stupid’
juba' ‘bad’
lecek ‘untrue’
pacengngeng ‘surprise’
pasenneng ‘make happy’
pasossa/sossa'agi ‘made sad’
3. Sentential subjects
A limited set of predicates admit sentential subjects in their basic usage. One
type can be characterized as intransitive evaluative predicates, such as bendher
‘true’, juba' ‘bad’, lecek ‘untrue’, sala ‘wrong’ and others, as exemplified in
(53) and (54). Sentential subjects are generally set off from the predicate by
comma intonation, i.e. a rise on the final word of the subject followed by a brief
pause. Additionally, many speakers prefer the use of mon to ja' in these sen-