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Clause Reform: Difference between revisions

Use hoı
(You do it like this)
(Use hoı)
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A big advantage of these changes is that sentence fences (well specifically, the words {{T|ꝡa}}, {{T|da}}, and {{T|móq}}) may now always be covert.
A big advantage of these changes is that sentence fences (well specifically, the words {{T|ꝡa}}, {{T|da}}, and {{T|móq}}) may now always be covert.


{{Example|Pu tam gaı jí sá arane. Sao hó ꝡeı!|I saw a spider. It was huge!}}{{Example|Jua hú. Duashao jí, ꝡä luı faq hí raı.|That's strange. I wonder what happened.}}{{Example|Hóı déo, soa súna máma ba.|Kids, come help your mom.}}
{{Example|Pu tam gaı jí sá arane. Sao hó ꝡeı!|I saw a spider. It was huge!}}{{Example|Jua hú. Duashao jí, ꝡä luı faq hí raı.|That's strange. I wonder what happened.}}{{Example|Hoı déo, soa súna máma ba.|Kids, come help your mom.}}
 
TODO: decide whether to keep the example with hóı… does hóı need to modify a particular speech act, or is it a speech act in itself?


== Flexible subclause attachment ==
== Flexible subclause attachment ==
TODO: explain the extraposition idea and also deal with trailing adjuncts
TODO: explain the extraposition idea and also deal with trailing adjuncts