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(339) a. Bilal e-naaj ke etal n#an Chuuk?
Bilal 3s.agr-T(fut) Q go to Chuuk
'Will Bilal go to Chuuk?
b. Aet, e-naaj
yes 3s.agr-T(fut)
'Yes, she will.'
At the same time, coordination tests involving intransitive sentences indicate that
AgrS-T V is not a constituent, as two strings consisting of AgrS-T and V cannot be
coordinated (340) and (341).
*S [AgrS-T V] PP constituency
(340) *Lallap eo [e-ar anijnij] im [e-ar
old.man the.s 3s.agr-T(past) do.black.magic.intrans and 3s.agr-T(past)
bubu] ilowan mweo.
do.divination.intrans inside the.house
'The old man did black magic (in the house) and did divination in the house.'
(341) *Mary [ear lotak] im [e-ar rūttolok] ilo Namorik.
Mary 3s.agr-T(past) born and 3s.agr-T(past) grow.up in Namorik
'Mary was born (in Namorik) and grew up in Namorik.'
While some speakers will not report that sentences like (340) and (341) are
ungrammatical, they often respond to questions about the grammaticality of such
sentences by saying something like "you don't need to use ear", where ear refers to the
subject agreement clitic and tense marker of the second conjunct. Then, they often
subsequently offer the following sentences, in which two verbs rather than AgrS-T V are
coordinated:
(342) Lallap eo e-ar anijnij im bubu
old.man the.s 3s.agr-T(past) do.black.magic.intrans and do.divination.intrans
ilowan mweo.
inside the.house
'The old man did black magic and divination in the house.'
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