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(Created page with "It has been proposed that Toaq could have '''auto-terminating clauses'''. The idea is that you don't need to say {{t|cy}} when a subclause verb has all its arguments filled. You know that the next argument must belong to the outer clause, because the inner clause can't take any more arguments. {{Example|Mẻoca {{blue|lôı súq nháo}} jí.|{{blue|The fact that you hate them}} saddens me.}} It would be ungrammatical for {{t|jí}} to be a third argument to {{t|loı}}...") |
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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}}. | 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}}. | ||
== Adverbial auto-termination == | |||
One extension would be to allow ending a subclause by saying an [[adverbial]]: | |||
{{Example|Mẻoca {{blue|fâ súq bũ}} jí.|{{blue|The fact that you don't go}} saddens me.}} | |||
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. | |||