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Therefore I conclude that the post embedded verb position is unavailable to non-right
dislocated subjects. The ability of the subject to follow the matrix but not the embedded
clause will be essential to the analysis of these sentences are biclausal.
Further evidence that these sentences are biclausal comes from long passives and
the scope of negation. First, this class of verbs does not allow long passives.
(556) *Amimōno ko r-ar lōmnak in āj.
handicraft the.pl.nh 3pl.agr-T(past) plan IN weave.intrans
'The handicrafts were planned to be woven.'
(557) *Imoko r-ar makoko in ekkal iiō eo lok.
the.houses 3pl.agr-T(past) refuse IN build.intrans year the.s last
'The houses were refused to be built last year.'
Second the negative jab 'not', when found between the matrix and embedded verbs, may
not take scope over the matrix verb.
(558) E-ar lōmnak in jab etal n#an Fountain Valley.
3s.agr-T(past) plan IN neg go to Fountain Valley
'He planned to not go to Fountain Valley.'
*'He didn't plan to go to Fountain Valley.'
The properties of verbs of this class are summarized in Table 22.
Table 22. The syntactic properties of non-restructuring infinitivals
Verb in V S (in) long passives
scope ambiguities
with neg
non-restructuring required √ * No
Table 23 provides a list of Marshallese non-restructuring verbs.
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