When
the object noun is relativized, the genitive marker is added to
the embedded subject.
mlu
kago ka tan
myu mi kapabne
they kago gen. kick-nom. man-acc. see-p.t.
‘they saw the man whom Kago kicked’
mlu
ka
labne
alyi mi
they I-gen. bring-nom. pig acc.
medo a?
search-exist int.
‘did they search for the pig that I brought’
The
adding of genitive marker to the embedded subject is noticed with
those relative clauses that are derived by relativizing dative noun
phrase.
o
mka pota
bin
nym
mi
I he-gen. book give-nom. woman acc.
kapato
see-p.t.
‘I saw the woman to whom he gave the book’ ka
dgotago
bin
alyi mi mó
I-gen. food give-nom. pig acc. he
latubine catch-p.t.
‘he caught the pig to which I gave food’ so
nymi
ka siti bin
milobo mi
I woman gen. leytter give-nom. man acc.
kapato see-p.t.
‘I met the man whom the woman sent a letter’
When
locative noun phrases are relativized, the locative noun ‘ko’
is added to the embedded verb to nominalize it. The embedded subject
takes the genitive case marker.
mka
iko
lemba mi o
kapato
he-gen. go-loc. village acc. I see-p.t.
‘I saw the village where he went'
ka
duko saxo
m dune
I-gen. sit-loc. cot he sit-p.t.
‘he sat on the cot on which I sat’
When
instrumental nouns are relatiivzed, the marker ‘nani’
(See, the section on word formation) is added to the embedded verb
to convert it into a noun. The embeded subject takes the genitive
marker.
ka
pannan
ilyo mi m
I-gen. cut-inst.nom. sword acc. he
bt
bring-p.t.
‘he brought the sword with which I cut’
Complementation
: Only NP complements are found in Apatani. In this process
a sentence is embedded as a complement to the noun. The complementizer
‘hla’
is inserted before the head noun in the process of complementation.
hime mi ka dan
bo
mi kapab
