Reduced relative clauses
Vitale identifies three types of relative clauses, "full relatives" which use amba-, "reduced relatives" which use a verbal prefix to indicate realtiveness (e.g. the ye in a-li-ye-mw-ona).
The third type is reduced relative clauses which have a relative marker suffix.
wanafunzi wa-soma-o
students they-study-REL
'students who study'
sentensi zi-fuata-zo
sentences they-follow-REL
'sentences which follow'
Note that these have no tense information.
The words that were labeled with REL-LI for their HCS part of speech are actually the copula version of these reduced relatives.
e.g.
word | gloss | part of speech | syntax | msdextra | msd |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
yaliyoko | which is there | REL-LI | @FMAINVintr-loc | LOC-17 | SUB-PREF=6-PLSG |
uliomo | which is therein | REL-LI | @FMAINVintr-loc | LOC-18 | SUB-PREF=11-SG |
walio | who are | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | SUB-PREF=2-PL |
iliyo | which is | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | SUB-PREF=9-SG |
iliyopo | which is there | REL-LI | @FMAINVintr-loc | LOC-16 | SUB-PREF=9-SG |
kilichomo | which is therein | REL-LI | @FMAINVintr-loc | LOC-18 | SUB-PREF=7-SG |
yaliyo | which is | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | SUB-PREF=6-PLSG |
alipo | where he is | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | SUB-PREF=1-SG 16-LOC |
aliyonayo | which he/she has | REL-LI | @SUBJ | CC PRON CC-PL 4-PL | SUB-PREF=1-SG3 |
uliye | who are | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | SUB-PREF=SG2 |
ulio | which is | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | SUB-PREF=3-SG |
tulio_nao | which we have | REL-LI | @SUBJ | _ | _ |
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