4. SYNTAX
I-erg this novel read and this-obl read-inf easy neg is
I read this novel and it is not easy to read.
It is also possible to conjoin different types of verbs.
- maora hÐsanaa AaOr hÐsaanaa iksaI kao psaMd nahIM Aayaa.
mera: hãsna: ør hãsa:na: kisi: ko pasand nahĩ: a:ya:.
my laugh-inf and laugh-caus anyone-dat like neg came
My laughing and making others laugh was not liked by
anyone. - gaussaa Aanaa AaOr gaussaa p`kT krnaa AcCa nahIM.
gussa: a:na: ør gussa: prakat karna: accha: nahĩ:.
anger come-inf and anger express do-inf good neg
It is not good to be angry nor to express ones anger.
When two sentences are conjoined, any number of elements,
including verbs, can be deleted under identity. The deletion can be
both forward as well as backward. However, backward deletion is
less frequent than forward deletion.
- Aimat nao iktaba KrIdI AaOr rjat nao kmaIja,.
amit ne kita:b xari:di: ør rajat ne kami:z.
Amit-erg book bought and Rajat-erg shirt
Amit bought a book and Rajat a shirt.
48a. Aimat nao iktaba Ø AaOr rjat nao kmaIja, KrIdI.
amit-ne kita:b Ø ør rajat ne kami:z xari:di:.
Amit-erg book Ø and Rajat-erg shirt bought
Amit bought a book and Rajat bought a shirt.
The coordinating morpheme AaOr ør conjoins sentences and parts of
sentences of similar syntactic and semantic structure. Due to such
constraints, the following pairs of sentences cannot be conjoined by
merely deleting the identical elements.
49a. mauJao caaya psaMd hO.
mujhe ca:y pasand h ́.
I-obl tea like is
I like tea.