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14 Complex clauses<br />
(2) men ijtjin<br />
men ijtji-n<br />
but<br />
ednen<br />
edne-n<br />
del<br />
del<br />
bårå<br />
bårå<br />
dan<br />
d-a-n<br />
siste,<br />
siste<br />
neg-3pl.pst obviously eat\conneg dem-dist-gen.sg out<br />
have-3pl.pst<br />
sinne<br />
sinne<br />
in<br />
biebmojd<br />
biebmo-jd<br />
food-acc.pl<br />
biergojd<br />
biergo-jd<br />
meat-acc.pl<br />
ja<br />
ja<br />
and<br />
dále<br />
dále<br />
now<br />
návte<br />
návte<br />
like.this<br />
men<br />
men<br />
but<br />
deggara<br />
deggara<br />
such\gen.pl<br />
‘But they obviously didn’t eat out <strong>of</strong> that, but they had food, meat and so<br />
on in such things.’<br />
[pit080708_Session03.019]<br />
When jala and eller function as clausal coordinators in the corpus, they are<br />
mostly used to indicate meta-language commentary showing that the second<br />
clause is an alternate or amended version <strong>of</strong> the first clause, as in (3), rather than<br />
to provide clause-level alternatives.<br />
(3) dále’l<br />
dále=l<br />
now=be\3sg.prs<br />
“unna<br />
unna<br />
small<br />
gámbal dåhpe,<br />
gámbal dåhpe<br />
jala almatj<br />
jala almatj<br />
hållå<br />
hållå<br />
old house\nom.sg or person\nom.sg say\3sg.prs<br />
dåbátj”<br />
dåbá-tj<br />
house-dim\nom.sg<br />
‘Now this is the old house, or one says “the little house”.’<br />
[pit100310b.047-049]<br />
14.2 Clausal subordination<br />
Certain types <strong>of</strong> <strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong> clauses can be subordinate to another clause or to<br />
a nominal phrase. When embedded at clause-level, a subordinate clause can be<br />
either a complement clause or an adverbial clause, depending on whether it fills<br />
an argument or an adverbial role. These two types <strong>of</strong> subordinate clause are<br />
described in §14.2.1 and §14.2.2, respectively. Subordinate clauses featuring nonfinite<br />
verb forms are likely also found in <strong>Pite</strong> <strong>Saami</strong>, a possibility which is dealt<br />
with briefly in §14.2.3. Finally, relative clauses are covered in §14.2.4.<br />
14.2.1 Complement clauses<br />
A complement clause fills an argument slot <strong>of</strong> the verbal predicate in the matrix<br />
clause it belongs to. There are a variety <strong>of</strong> complement clause constructions, and<br />
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