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the verb must be made to agree with the subject, in the
following sentence the verb cannot be used with an enclitic.
52. Yum pade rhet(*-jih) that jinoe siat.
Price rice fall-3 very now a moment
The price of rice is very low at the moment.'
Even with inanimate subjects that are considered to be
performing some activity, such as the sun, rivers, thunder,
rain, etc., which are considered in Durie (1985: 67-71) as
being animate, enclitics cannot be used.
53. Krueng nyoe panyang(*-jih).
River this long-3
' This river is long.'
54. Matauroe trang(*-jih).'
Sun bright-3
'The sun is bright.'
55. Ajaran agama geutanyoe got(*-geuh) that.
Teaching religion we^nc good-3 very
' The teaching of our religion is very good.'
This shows that the use of proclitic cross-referencing
in sentences such as (36) through (39) does not mean that
the subjects are treated as animate, because we would need
to treat them as animate when used with verbs that take
proclitics, but inanimate when used with verbs that take
enclitics and adjectives; this is unacceptable. It is,