Other Dependent Clauses and Further Features of Clause Linking

Abstract

Abstract We will now discuss clause-linking devices other than clause chaining via medial dependent clauses (see Aikhenvald forthcoming g, on their semantics). These include: juxtaposition of a dependent clause and a main clause (§19.1); relative clauses (§19.2); clause linking via a case marker ‘instead’ and a suffix ‘like’ (§19.3); purposive and desiderative clauses (§19.4); speech reports (§19.5); clause linking involving connectives (§19.6); and juxtaposition of main clauses (§19.7). Manambu does not have complement clauses as a type on their own. Some types of medial dependent clauses, juxtaposed clauses, purposives, desideratives, speech reports, and nominalizations can be used as complementation strategies—see §19.8. Dependent clauses can be used as main clauses. This phenomenon, known as desubordination, is addressed in §19.9, together with grammaticalization and reinterpretation of ‘medial’ verbal forms.