340 Chapter 11 Complex sentences
(26) Ebu' namen tomat e seddi'-eng roma bi' e antara-na
mother AV.plant tomato at side-DEF house and at between-DEF
ka'-bunka'an raja.
RED-tree big
‘Mother planted tomatoes beside the house and between the big trees.’
(27) %Na'-kana' a-berka' dha' sakola'an so dha' pasar.
RED-child AV-run to school and to market
‘The children ran to school and to the market.’
For the coordination of lexical items, ban, bi', and so can all be used, as
can otaba and tape. Again, ban is accepted by all speakers, whereas bi' and so
are sometimes rejected. Coordination of nouns is illustrated in (28) and (29).
(28) Burus ban koceng se raja juwa ngakan kakan-an-na Ale'.
dog and cat REL big that AV.eat eat-NOM-DEF yngr.sibling
‘The large dog and cat ate Little Brother’s food.’
‘The dog and that large cat ate Little Brother’s food.’
(29) Ali ma-becce' motor bi' sapedha motor rowa.
Ali AV.CS-good car and motorcycle that
‘Ali fixed that car and motorcycle.’
‘Ali fixed a/the car and that motorcycle.’
There is systematic ambiguity in (28) and (29), as reflected in the dual transla-
tions. The two interpretations of (28) depend on whether the relative clause se
raja ‘that is big’ modifies both burus ‘dog’ and koceng ‘cat’ or only modifies
koceng. When conjunction is at the word level, burus and koceng jointly head
the relative clause se raja ‘that is big’ and both are interpreted as being large.
When conjunction is at the phrases level, burus and koceng se raja are coordi-
nated and only the cat is interpreted as being large. In (29), conjunction at the
word level results in motor ‘car’ and sapedha motor ‘motorcycle’ being con-
joined and rowa ‘that’ has scope over both nouns: they are assumed to be close
together or grouped together. When conjunction is at the phrasal level rowa has
scope only over sapedha motor; here the interpretation is ‘a/the car and that
motorcycle’.
For verbs and VPs, only ban is an acceptable coordinating conjunction;
bi' and so are consistently rejected in this environment. (30) and (31) illustrate
coordination of verbs and verb phrases.