Complements of nominals 373
In (160), roma ‘house’ is modified by kennengnganna engko' tatemmo tang
bine ‘the place that I met my wife’. This latter structure includes the low-
information locative noun kennengngan ‘place’, modified by the juxtaposed
clause engko' tatemmo tang bine ‘I met my wife’. Taken together, the noun and
the juxtaposed clause function as an appositive further specifying roma ‘house’.
(161) provides a similar example with a temporal adjunct, which includes the
temporal low-information noun bakto ‘time’.
8. Complements of nominals
In addition to relative clauses, there are noun heads that take sentential com-
plements. These include careta ‘story’, kabar ‘news’, sowal ‘concern/problem’,
and a host of others. Examples are given in (162-164).
(162) a. Careta ja' polisi nangkep Pa' Samidin, lecek.
story COMP police AV.catch Mr Samidin lie
‘The story that the police caught Pak Samidin is a lie.’
b. Lecek careta-na ja' polisi nangkep Pa' Samidin.
lie story-DEF COMP police AV.catch Mr Samidin
‘The story that the police caught Pak Samidin is a lie.’
(163) a. Kabar ja' Emba seda ma-sossa.
news COMP grandparent die AV.CS-sad
‘The news that Grandfather died made people sad.’
b. Ma-sossa, kabar ja' Emba seda.
AV.CS-sad news COMP grandparent die
‘The news that Grandfather died made people sad.’
(164) Ng-edhing kabar ja' Ke' Lesap nyerbu-wa dha' Sampang,buru
AV-hear news COMP Ke' Lesap AV.invade-IRR to Sampang hurry
kabbi rato Sampang.
all king Sampang
‘Hearing the news that Ke' Lesap was going to invade, the king of
Sampang and everyone else ran away.’
The complementizer ja' is used with sentential complements of nouns. The sen-
tences in (162) illustrate the fact that the head of a complex noun phrase can
take a definite suffix (162b) but need not (162a).