Fw: [An-lang] Coordinate structures in Indonesian

Paz B. Naylor pnaylor at umich.edu
Tue Jul 15 05:03:55 UTC 2003


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paz B. Naylor" <pnaylor at umich.edu>
To: "Whitney Anne Post" <whitneyannepost at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [An-lang] Coordinate structures in Indonesian


>   Sorry I can't answer your question but Right on!  Paz
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Whitney Anne Post" <whitneyannepost at hotmail.com>
> To: <AN-LANG at anu.edu.au>
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:04 PM
> Subject: [An-lang] Coordinate structures in Indonesian
>
>
> > Dear AN-Lang friends,
> >
> > I will happily take up Paz Naylor's challenge to "re-activate" the
AN-Lang
> > list-serve by posing a question to the Malay-Indonesianists among you.
How
> > would you judge coordinate sentences like (1) and (2) below, in which
the
> > conjoined VPs are not of the same voice? (I have glossed the prefix meN-
> as
> > "ACT" for "Active Voice" and di- as "PASS" for "Passive Voice".)
> >
> > (1)
> > Nando mendorong Allen dan dipeluk Susan.
> > Nando ACT-push Allen and PASS-hug Susan
> > 'Nando pushes Allen and is hugged by Susan'
> >
> > (2)
> > Nando didorong Susan dan memukul Allen.
> > Nando PASS-push Susan and ACT-hit Allen
> > 'Nando is pushed by Susan and hits Allen'
> >
> > If these sentences do indeed sound odd, I have the following more
specific
> > questions:
> > - Are they absolutely ungrammatical, or could some pragmatic principle
> (say,
> > thematic parallelism between the two conjoined predicates) be at work
> here?
> > - Would replacing the linker "dan" with another more temporally loaded
one
> > like "lalu" improve them?
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your judgments. I will post a summary of
> responses
> > if I receive enough to warrant it.
> >
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Whitney Anne Postman (and not "Post"as my hotmail address would have it)
> > NYU School of Medicine, USA
> >
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