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intonation, the order subject-predicate is considered as the
basic word order of Acehnese sentences. This has been
adopted as the basis for assuming the form subject-predicate
as the Acehnese basic sentence structure. Intonation has
also been used here to define subject.
Intonation will be used in some other discussions in
the following chapters. It is an important factor considered
in the discussion on cliticization of agents, which is
treated in Section 4.7 of Chapter 4. It is also used to
determine whether or not two verbs occurring in succession
are serialized, which is discussed in Section 5.1 of Chapter
5. Intonation is also used to determine the structure in
which certain verbs are being used, when these verbs can
occur in two different structures. One such verbs is dawa
'to accuse,' which can occur in the structure with a nyang-
complement and in the structure with a transitive VP
complement. This is discussed in Chapter 5.