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namdo,
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kam namia
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‘as for finding,
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you
will not find it’
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| 3.2.2.5.
Adjectival subordinate clause: |
| Clausual construction
with the genetival /re/ or /rea?/ becomes adjectival functionally
because it qualifies the nominal subject of the principal clause,
as in - |
leloked-ra? en ko a
go?janae ‘the boy, while looking, died’ |
| Here leloked-ra?
is qualifying the boy rather than his action of dying and the above
rendering can be paraphrased as ‘the boy who was looking, died’. |
| Similar constructions
are possible with mena? or bano?, as Hoffmann gives the examples;
but they express simultaneity of an action. As such, they may be
included in temporal adverbial type. |
|
neado api
menai-ra? kaji taikena
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‘this event took place, my father
being still alive’
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| 3.2.3.
Co-ordinate clauses: |
| A co-ordinate clause
is not different from a principal clause which is joined to another
co-ordinate clause with the help of certain connectives. In place
of using subordinate clauses, Mundas generally frame a co-ordinate
clause and join it with the principal one. Thus, there will be two
or more principal clauses with finite verbs. |
| A co-ordinate clause
may joined to the principal clause even without connectives. Connectives
are either free or bound. Free connectives are more numerous which
may be either single or compound. The functions of such connectives
are varied and being enumerated below accordingly: |
| (a) Free
connectives: |
| 1.
Additive: |
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which just
adds two indipendent
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clauses. Simple markers:
oo?,
ad,
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ado?, har (all for ‘and’)
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Derived (compound): addo ‘and then’
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| 2.
Co-ordinative: mostly with /te/ or /ate/ |
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Simple : mendo ‘but’
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Derived:
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enra?te,
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‘that being
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with or
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so’
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}
without
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enate
‘therefore’
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/do/
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Phraseal:
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nea mente,
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enamente
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‘for this
purpose’
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for
that
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purpose’
etc.
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| 3. Conditiona:
withg /re/ and /do/
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All derived and compound:
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en-re, ena-re
,
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with or without
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iminre
niminre
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do/o/ge
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endo, enado, naado, heredo
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‘if agreed’, heoredo, ciaci,
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cilkaci
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| 4.
Disjunctive: |
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All derived and compound, except the |
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use of /ci/ for ‘or’
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ko-re, ka-re-do, ba-re,
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ba-re-do
and cika ‘interrogative’
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| (b)
Bound connectives: |
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-re, -te, -do, -ate, all of these may
be used with /ge/ or /o/ or both for emphasis. |
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3.3. Sentence Formation: |
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3.3.0. Introductory: A clause may overlap sentence
in entirity, when it has a finite verb and is independent or a
clause may form part of a sentence, in which case the sentence
has to be either
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