Re: Referent Tracking

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, 02:02 CET, Rik Roots wrote:

 > Before I rejigged the system relative clauses would have
 > relative conjunctions
 > at the beginning and the end, and could be embedded
 > anywhere within the main
 > clause - but it was clumsy and cumbersome. The system
 > still needs a little
 > bit of tweaking I think, but I'm in no hurry.

I can do that too in Ayeri. If the relative pronoun does not
follow directly the argument it relativizes (word?) on, the
case ending of the argument it refers to is added: sang,
saris, sireng, silei, sena, siyam, ... I don't undestand
what this has to do with Switch Reference systems, e.g. as
described in Describing Morphosyntax (pp. 322-325).

Carsten

PS: I've been offered a Gmail account. I've always wanted
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