A Grammar of Miya - UCLA Department of Linguistics

272 A Grammar of Miya
'iy na d-aa vaa samay aa iyaally niyfo
'where your family (iyaally niyf,) dumps trash'
Relativized locatives of non-verbal locative clauses follow the same patterns as those of
locatives in verbal clauses, except that the subject is clause initial rather than clause final:
{ ndiiwul b-aa tal do daho
ndiiwul ba-aa tal rna dilh-uw
'the pot that the beer is in' }
'the pot that the beer is not in'
5.2.7. Temporal relatives. Temporal relatives can have a nominal antecedent
followed by a relative clause of the normal type. With the word mukwa '(on) the day
(that)' as antecedent, no relative pronoun is required. 22
160kaciy ba na d-aa biy vorkaw
'at the time (l60kaciy) when she is going to give birth'
saa'ly baa d" t-aa uy(a) ita Luuga
'at the time (saa'ly) that Luga attained [the chieftancy],
mUku maa d" buwatl"n
'on the day that they carne'
muku rna na miy d-ita hadaw
'on the day that we wi!! gather'
mukwil na d-aa biy saa tal ka
'on the day that one is going to drink beer'
5.2.8. Genitive relatives. Genitive relatives require a resumptive pronoun (italicized
iu the examples).
nee [s"m baa mly dawaarn(a) aakiln-was,] kon
'there is [the man at whose house we stayed]' (' ... the man who we stayed at his house')
nee [s"m baa d" kora-ya mir nuw-s,] k"n-ay
'there is [the man whose money was stolen from him (-ya)]'
v;Srkg ba doomi rut b-uws