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(12) Pă-AUX with an AUX string a. naF -TA Pă-šă - vă - kōH -TA ‘It is that (they) still stay’ stay- - still - REALIZATION - PLURAL-RLS b. *naF -TA šiL Pă-vă - kōH -TA c. *naF -TA šă - vaH Pă-kōH -TA • Pă- can be attached only to a whole AUX string. That is, Pă- cannot ‘break’ neither a verb concatenation nor an AUX string. 2.3 The structure of Pă-AUX sentence 2.3.1 TA immediately preceding Pă- It occurs whether the verb has negative prefix or not. (13) Functional classification of TAs Part of instrumental case marker-TAyaNF * 8 Marker of positive Realis Informative sentence (7): TA in question also occurs in negative . Coordinator of verbs (11) • Marker of attributive element (14) positive negative RLS naL(-raH) pyuF mă-naL(-raH) pyuF ‘a person who stays/stayed’ ‘a person who does/did not stay’ IRL naF -neNH pyuF mă-naF -neNH pyuF ‘a person who will stay’ ‘a person who will not stay’ (15) Paradigm of attributive clause (generalized): positive negative RLS V(-AUX) -TA -TA(-raH) mă-V(-AUX) -φ -TA(-raH) IRL V(-AUX) -neNH -TA mă-V(-AUX) -neNH -TA • An attributive clause can be analyzed as an Informative sentence with an attributive marker TA • The effects of TAs cannot be accumulated. Supporting evidences: (16) a. chĕ-ruL kātH-TA-raH * 9 (I) did like this. this-like do-RLS-RA b. chĕ-ruL-TA this-like-ATTR mukFsukHpāūkH book such a book *8 The notation shows that yaNF always triggers tonal alternation of the immediately preceding syllable. 4
(17) a. PăfoPH luFluF-tsaL NatF-TA A leaf is wide and thin leaf wide&thinRDPL-only CPL-RLS b. PăfoPH luFluF-tsaL-TA ruF leaf wide&thinRDPL-only-ATTR thing a wide and thin leaf (lit. a leaf, and what is wide and thin) (18) Pă- as a nominalizer prefix PăGiL big one < GiL , to be big PălauNF heat < lauNF , to be hot PămyōNF height < myōNF to be high PăpinF end < pinF to end PăpuNH hole < puNH , to hole PăNø¯ H lid < Nø¯ H , to cover PătaNL bunch < taNL , to bunch PăsoL mark < soL to mark Pă-AUX sentences have quasi-attributive structure: a nominalized AUX with an attributive clause 2.3.2 Pă-TA after AUX (clearly detected only in case AUX is -šiL‘still’/-loL‘anymore’. See (6)) Take it a special case of the marker of positive Realis Informative sentence. (19) a. Păy-meNF naF -TA-TA Pă-šiL-TA . ‘It is that (he) is/was still there.’ there-LOC stay-RLS-ATTR PRF-still-RLS (reanalysis of (2c)) b. Păy-meNF mă-naF -φ-TA Pă-šiL-TA . ‘It is that he is/was not still there’ not-stay-NEG-ATTR cf. Păy-meNF there-LOC naF-šiL-TA-TA stay-still-RLS-ATTR ruF thing NatF-TA(-raH) . CPL-RLS(-RA) (‘Truly attributive’ version of (19)) 2.3.3 Factors limiting sentences having Pă-AUX counterpart to Realis Informative ones • Morphological factor: an overt sentence marker is incompatible with nominalization by Pă-, (20) *naF-TA-TA stay-RLS-ATTR Pă-neNH PRF-IRL / *naF-TA-TA Pă-laNL PRF-HORT / *naF-TA-TA Pă-šoNL PRF-OPT nor an AUX-sentence marker complex. • Semantic factor: quasi-attributive structure does not fit the purpose of expressing such speech act as order, request, hortation, prayer etc. * 10 *9 -raH is a particle which occurs after Realis attributive clauses and positive Realis sentences. In an attributive clause, it functions as an overt linker between the clause and its head noun, supporting non-segmental marker -TA. In a positive Realis sentence, -raH indicates the high degree of formality. Its original function would be the former. *10 However, the factors mentioned above cannot explain the ungrammaticality of the following sentence: *naF-neNH-TA stay-IRL-ATTR Pă-šiL-TA PRF-still-RLS 5
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