'anu' as a relative clause marker

SANUSI ALENA LEE sanusi at ucsu.Colorado.EDU
Tue Feb 29 14:03:46 UTC 2000


Hello, Adrian,

Could you provide an example of such a usage, please?  I'm not sure I
grasp the distinction that you are making.

Thanks,
Alena Sanusi

On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 aclynes at ubd.edu.bn wrote:

> Older speakers of Brunei Malay appear to use /anu/ as a relative clause
> marker.  (Another 'anu' functions as a hesitation marker in BM, as in other
> dialects of Malay).  Blust 1974 reports a form /anuq/ 'which' in the
> related language Murik.
> Is a cognate form found elsewhere?  Thanks for any pointers.
> Adrian Clynes
> Department of English Language & Applied Linguistics
> Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
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