372 Chapter 11 Complex sentences
(157) a. *Reng lake' pokol-an-na Ali sateya badha e roma sake'.
man hit-NOM-DEF Ali now exist at hospital
(The man Ali hit is now in the hospital.)
b. Reng lake' se e-pokol Ali sateya badha e roma sake'.
man REL OV-hit Ali now exist at hospital
‘The man that Ali hit is now in the hospital.’
A relativization strategy for locative, temporal, and other adjuncts is illu-
strated in (158). In this structure, a modifying clause is simply juxtaposed fol-
lowing the noun being modified, which is reminiscent to the appositive object
structure, in which the modifying clause is juxtaposed to the head.
(158) Kantor-ra [Emma' a-lako] badha neng e kottha.
office-DEF Mother AV-work exist at at city
‘The office where Mother works is in town.’
In (158), kantorra ‘the office’ is modified by the juxtaposed clause Emma' ala-
ko ‘mother works’. The modifying clause contains no locative phrase; the ab-
sence of a locative phrase can be interpreted as a gap that would refer to the
head in the same way that the gap in a relative clause refers to the head. Filling
the gap in (158) would yield the independent clause Emma' alako e kantorra
‘Mother works in the office’. Another example of this strategy is given in (159).
(159) Rowa taon [oreng jarowa entar ka Australia].
that year man that go to Australia
‘That is the year that man went to Australia.’
In (159), taon ‘year’ is modified by the juxtaposed clause oreng jarowa entar
ka Austrlia ‘that man went to Australia’. The noun and the modifying clause
constitute the predicate of the sentence in (159), the subject of which is rowa
‘that’.
A variation of this structure includes a low-information noun serving as
the head of a juxtaposed modifying clause, the whole of which acts as an appo-
sitive to the specified noun head. This is illustrated in (160) and (161).
(160) Roma kennengngan-na engko' ta-temmo tang bine ancor.
house place-DEF I IN-meet my wife collapse
‘The house where I met my wife collapsed.’
(161) Sengko' ta' enga' are-na e bakto Eppa' mole ka roma.
I not remember day-DEF at time father go.home to house
‘I don’t remember the day that Father came home.’