| Description: | morpheme used to embed one statement inside another statement; Embedding Marker: to embed a sentential complement (like English I know that she left) attached to the last element in the embedded clause (see also '-háa'; '-hée') When we want to put one English statement inside another one -- a process called 'embedding' -- we can use the word 'that' to mark the statement that is embedded. For example: 'I know that science fiction conventions are fun' embeds the statement 'science fiction conventions are 'fun' inside 'I know [some other statement]' by putting 'that' at the beginning of the embedded statement. LAadan embeds one statement in another by putting the morpheme '-hE' on the last word of the embedded statement. So in sentence #7 the statement 'radezhehul thod Aabeth' -- 'writing a book is very hard' is marked as an embedded statement by adding '-hE' to 'Aabeth.' [Note: An embedding morpheme is the _only_ morpheme that can follow a case-marking morpheme.] |
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