Language Contact and Documentation: Contacto Linguistico y Documentacion

332 Ulrike Mosel
a hena=na=e a paree.
art name=3sg.poss=3sg.pron art paree
‘his name was paree.’
A paree a oraa vaa tahii.
art paree art demon lnk sea
‘The paree is a demon of the sea.’
(Mor_03R.018–022)
In the edited version (8b), the content of these three independent clauses is
expressed by a single adverbial clause which is linked by the conjunction he
to the preceding clause. The position held by he is the position after the first
clausal constituent; here it is the topical subject NP with its embedded relative
clause.
(8) b. ‘one man did not have a partner’
me sun vakokona nana,
and stand think 3sg.ipfv
‘and stood there thinking,’
a peha oraa vaa tahii to dao ri=ori bona
art indef demon lnk sea rel call 3pl.ipfv=3pl.pron art
paree he
paree when
‘when a sea spirit that is called paree’ (lit. ‘that they call paree’)
tavusu ki bona,
appear dat 4sg.pron
‘appeared in front of him’
(Mor_03E.013−15)
The relative clause ‘that they call paree’ corresponds to the independent clause
‘his name was paree.’
5.1.4 Interlacing by raising
The corpus of legends presents a very good example of the alternation of complement
clauses with and without raising. Whereas in (9a) the complement
taking verb goe ‘will not’ is directly followed by the tea-complement clause, it
attracts the adverb vahaa ‘again’ and the pronominal object anaa ‘me’ of the