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+Toaq has '''self-terminating''' clauses. A subclause is "terminated" when it can't take any more arguments, and yet another positional argument follows. The "self-" reflects the fact that no explicit terminating particle is necessary.
-It has been proposed that Toaq could have '''auto-terminating clauses'''.
+{{Example|Meoca {{blue|ꝡä loı súq nháo}} jí.|{{blue|The fact that you hate her}} saddens me.}}
-The idea is that you don't need to say {{t|cy}} when a subclause verb has all its arguments filled.
+It would be ungrammatical for {{t|jí}} to be a third argument to {{t|loı}}, which is "full" — so it must be a second argument to {{t|meoca}}.
-You know that the next argument must belong to the outer clause, because the inner clause can't take any more arguments.
+{{Example|Bua ké poq {{blue|ꝡë luı do hóa jí ní}} ní doaq.|The person {{blue|who gave me this}} lives in this city.}}
-{{Example|Mẻoca {{blue|lôı súq nháo}} jí.|{{blue|The fact that you hate them}} saddens me.}}
+It would be ungrammatical for {{t|ní doaq}} to be a fourth argument to {{t|do}}, so the ꝡë-clause closes before it.
-It would be ungrammatical for {{t|jí}} to be a third argument to {{t|loı}}, which is "full" — so it must be a second argument to {{t|meoca}}.
+These examples are intentionally written without commas to clarify that the comma isn't what closes a subclause. But in practice, it's considered proper Toaq punctuation style to write a comma at the start and end of a subclause: {{t|Bua ké poq, {{blue|ꝡë luı do hóa jí ní}}, ní doaq.}}
-== Adverbial auto-termination ==
+== A limitation ==
-One extension would be to allow ending a subclause by saying an [[adverbial]]:
+One limitation is that self-termination isn't activated by adverbials, so it's hard to add an adverbial to the end of a main clause with a subclause object.
-{{Example|Mẻoca {{blue|fâ súq bũ}} jí.|{{blue|The fact that you don't go}} saddens me.}}
+{{Example|Ruaq súq, {{blue|ꝡä jaı súq râo púchaq}}.|You say {{blue|that you were "happy yesterday"}}.}}
+{{Example|Ruaq súq, {{blue|ꝡä jaı súq {{red|???}}}} râo púchaq.|You said {{blue|that you are "happy"}}, yesterday.}}
-After {{t|bũ}}, it would be ungrammatical for {{t|jí}} to be a further argument {{t|fa}}, as adverbials must come either before or after all the arguments. Thus, we can interpret a post-argument adverbial as terminating the clause.
+Without {{t|cy}} at our disposal, we have no choice but to move the adverbial elsewhere ({{t|Ruaq râo púchaq súq, ꝡä…}}).