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Data on apparent discontinuous NPs in the Cariban family
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Ye'kwana: our life was beautiful (histana-059) #71

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fmatter commented 1 year ago

'our life' is the subject, 'beautiful' is the predicate, but what is iyö?

(histana-059) Ye’kwana (Cáceres Arandia 2021)

Iyö inñataje ñña weijüüdü yawö,  
iyö inñataje ñña w-ei-jüdü        yawö    
DEM bonito   1+3 INTR-COP-PAS.POS entonces  
pro n        Pro n                conj    
‘Aquello era bonito nuestra vida’
SpikeGildea commented 1 year ago

Perhaps [aquello bonito] (era) [nuestra vida] — this is not automatic, but it does not require discontinuity