Tanti Dargwa coordinators

Clause coordination is not typical of Tanti Dargwa, which combines clauses mainly by subordination with non-finite verb forms, as Sumbatova describes. Noun phrases are conjoined with the additive enclitic =ra 'also, too' after each coordinand. Disjunction repeats the free word ja before each alternative, which with negation gives 'neither … nor', and the enclitic =nu marks contrast or cause.

Main definitions

• Dargwa.Coordination.ra, Dargwa.Coordination.ja, Dargwa.Coordination.nu: the additive enclitic that conjoins, the disjunctive coordinator and the contrastive enclitic.

References

• [Sum21]

def Dargwa.Coordination.ra : Coordinator

=ra 'and', enclitic on each coordinand, also the additive particle Dargwa.FocusParticles.ra.

Equations

• Dargwa.Coordination.ra = { morph := Morphology.Morph.encl "ra", gloss := "and", role := Coordinator.Role.conjunctive }

def Dargwa.Coordination.ja : Coordinator

ja 'or', repeated before each alternative.

Equations

• Dargwa.Coordination.ja = { morph := Morphology.Morph.free "ja", gloss := "or", role := Coordinator.Role.disjunctive }

def Dargwa.Coordination.nu : Coordinator

=nu 'but; because', enclitic.

Equations

• Dargwa.Coordination.nu = { morph := Morphology.Morph.encl "nu", gloss := "but; because", role := Coordinator.Role.adversative }