Prima facie, this solution is basically identical to that of Ge??ez and Akkadian, but it is somewhat more sophisticated and subtle: by inserting the subordinating d the noun is converted to nomen rectum, i.e., a subordinated one, and by lowering the status of the noun, the status of the adjective, its subordinator in the nominal phrase, rises.

Only three of these categories are expressed by a subordinator in Otomi, by way of in total just four elements.

2001; Laenzlinger 2000), the present article argues that both types of modification available in Mandarin Chinese have to be taken into account: that where the subordinator de intervenes between the adjective and the head noun--'A de N'--and the case of simple juxtaposition of the adjective and the noun 'A N.' Extensive evidence is provided against the widespread idea that attributive adjectives in Mandarin Chinese can be analyzed as relative clauses and that 'A N' de-less modification structures are compounds (cf Sproat and Shih 1988, 1991; Duanmu 1998; Simpson 2001).

Since modern Ayoreo speakers do not understand the word mari, we propose that the systematic fusion of the old subordinator mari with the para-hypotactic coordinator enga has reached the stage of full univerbation in maringa.

First of all, the scope of this research is restricted to complex sentences containing a subordinator. Hence, as far as the criterion of EXPLICITNESS OF LINKING is concerned, attention is confined to "specific conjunctions," ignoring other linking devices such as prepositional phrases or connective adverbs (Lehmann 1988: 213).

The first consists of Subordinator + NP + VP, whilst the second consists of Subordinator + PP.

This is a rather too late occurrence to be interpreted as a combination of a conjunction and a pleonastic subordinator, so the clausal analysis seems more plausible in this case: al be it that S, which might have been a reflex of Middle English Pattern Two.

Syntactic markers of adverbial dependent clauses (subordinating conjunctions such as kshe `when', lamrot she `although') were excluded, except where the subordinating marker she `that' does not function as a syntactic subordinator but rather forms part of a sentence-modifying adverbial, as in an expression like barur she `it is clear that = clearly' (Ariel 1978).

(4.) Inversion does occur after ne in conditionals without a subordinator, which signal the conditional relationship by subject -- operator inversion in both negative and affirmative clauses.

--Clausal supine must have a prepositional subordinator; that is de `of' in most cases: (2) a.