Relativisation in Mubi and Zerenkel 0 ▲ Jabal al-Lughat 2 hours ago · Culture · hide · 0 comments The remarkable voice system described for Mubi seems to interact with relativisation, but textual data is scarce. In textual examples of subject relativisation, the same suffix shows up that Jungraithmayr describes as forming attributive adjectives; compare: njótúgìhìtt-ìtsàhíitú person?M.RELpronounce.IPFV-ADJtruth? a person who speaks the truth (Jungraithmayr 2013:64, 115) jórólgìmèed-ít jackalM.RELdie.PFV-ADJ a dead jackal / a jackal which has died Lukas gives phrasal examples where there is clearly no suffix, but are they really relatives? njóogàŋhúwútàbògòs personM.DEM.DISTfish[V].IPFVfish.PL fisherman = a person who catches fish (Lukas 1937:159) What about when you relativise on a direct object? In the two textual examples found, the subject agreement seems to be from Series III (not I, as I would have expected); but perhaps these verbs take obliques rather than direct objects in Mubi. Thus: lìgìfány-gát thingM.RELwant.PFV-2MSg.II/III the thing that you… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.