Language Contact and Documentation: Contacto Linguistico y Documentacion

334 Ulrike Mosel
(10) a. Enaa re nao namana,
1sg.pron then go ocean
‘Then I’ll go to the ocean,’
enaa re no rake e keara te=naa
1sg.pron so.that go search art brother prep=1sg.pron
‘so that I’ll search for my brother.’
(Sha_01R.110)
The editor not only replaced the semantically vague verb nao ‘go’ by naovo
‘fly’, but also made the predicate of the second clause rake ‘search’ a serial
verb which transitivises the verb complex so that the object of the second
clause becomes the object of the first clause.
(10) b. Enaa re naovo rake- rake e keara te- naa.
1sg.pron conj fly red- search art brother prep- 1sg.pron
‘I’ll fly (and) search everywhere for my brother.’
(Sha_01E.110)
The reduplication of the verb rake ‘search’ expresses that the action is repetitive
and done in several places.
5.2.2 Nominalisation
The second clause of a sequence of two clauses can be nominalised and integrated
into the first clause as an argument or adjunct. Nominalisation is not
marked by morphological changes of the verb, but only indicated by the replacement
of the TAM marking by an article and either the loss of the subject
or its change into a possessive attribute. The nominalised verb can inherit modifiers,
incorporated nouns and serial verbs. In (11b) the second clause of (11a)
becomes a prepositional phrase in which the preposition governs the nominalised
verb veve ‘search’ with its incorporated noun usu ‘louse’, its serial verb
vagorogoroho ‘make s. o. fall asleep’, and the object anaa ‘me’:
(11) a. Mataa rakaha,
good very
‘Thank you very much’
ean paa veve usu va-goro-goroho a-v- anaa.
2sg tam search lice caus-red-sleep 1sg.objm-im- 1sg.obj