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6. Radio lon teungoh geu-cuba peugbt le ureueng nyan.
Radio I PROG 3r-try repair by person that
That person is trying to repair my radio. (Lit.: My
radio is being tried to repair by that person.)'
7. Ureueng nyan teungoh geu-cuba peugot radio lon.
Person that PROG 3r-try repair radio I
That person is trying to repair my radio.'
Similar to (3), (6) is not derived through an
intermediate structure as below because, just as the case
with the complement of neuk. the complement of cuba cannot
be passivized if the subject of this complement is
coreferential with the subject of the main clause. (8) is
ungrammatical:
8. "Ureueng nyan teungoh geu-cuba radio lon geu-peugot.
Person that PROG 3r-try radio I 3r-repair
To explain (3) and (6), it is necessary to use the
notion of verb serialization. 1 Verb serialization is defined
here as a process in which two or more verbs are combined
into a single phonological unit. This is marked not only by
form, but also by intonation. The entire unit of serialized
verbs is pronounced without a break, and nothing intervenes
between member verbs; the proclitic is used only on the
•••This notion is also used in Durie (1985:240-3) in
treating some sentences with serialized verbs, including
loosely serialized ones ("weak serialization") .•