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Data on apparent discontinuous NPs in the Cariban family
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Akawaio: transitive or intransitive verb? (pingkas-personal-narrative-057) #75

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fmatter commented 1 year ago

Note from last time was: serö rï’kwö rö maing is the argument of ‘talk’.

However, saurogï 'talk' is glossed as intransitive, and the second person form au-saurogï suggests that that is true. However, I can't make it work with what we see below.

(pingkas-personal-narrative-057) Akawaio (Caesar-Fox 2003)

serö rï'kwö rö maing sauro'nö na'nek eji wagïbe rö  
serö rï'kwö rö    maing saurogï-nnö nai-nek       eji wagï pe   rö   
this Dim    Emph  word  talk-1+2S   3.be.Pres-Rel be  good like Emph   
Pro  Pro    Prtcl N     Vi          Vi-Rel        Vi  N    P    Prtcl
‘This language that we talk here is really good’
SpikeGildea commented 1 year ago

Well, it's a relative clause based on the auxiliary, so '[this language][(the one) we speak] is really good'. a three-N pseudo NP with the third N being a relative clause.