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omission in stories can be shown using, for instance, the
story in (73). We can do this by inserting the subjects
where they are omitted. If we do this, the story will sound
very strange to the ears of the Acehnese; it becomes
unacceptable.
The same is true of conversation. The following is from
a conversation between an informant and the subject's father
the day after a contest in which the subject had taken part.
The subject is introduced in the first sentence. In the
following sentence it appears again in the form of a pronoun
because di is used, not for focus, but because the. subject
is backgrounded to highlight the predicate, and this
requires the subject to be preceded by di (see function (v)
of di in 3.4.1) . In the two clauses that follow, the
subject is omitted. In her next response, again the
informant placed the subject at the end of the sentence for
the same reason as above; so, di is used and the subject has
to be in full form again. Then it is omitted again in the
following sentence.
The same as in the story above, subject omission in the
middle of a conversation, as shown in the following, is also
obligatory.
75. Q: Na meuteumeung nomor si Iyah.
AUX get number title Iyah
A: Na. Kali nyoe meuteumeung leumboi sa di jih.
Yes Time this get number one SFC shey
Nyang ka leupah j£ man duwa go leumboi duwa.
Which PERF past - all two time number two