Sunday, January 29, 2012

Stranded accusatives in Copala Triqui

A small lesson for me on why it is useful to work through texts -- you encounter things that you would not have known were possible.  Today I found three examples of stranded accusative markers in the Copala Triqui New Testament translation, and this is a construction that I did not know was grammatical!




I think it probably important that all of these appear in relative clause contexts -- ''the apostles that Jesus named ACC", "the ones that Jesus named", and "the ones that you put in jail ACC".

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