[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: third-person subject of relative phrase

[SuStel]

On 3/8/2016 12:13 PM, chransberry at gmail.com wrote:
> SIjwI' chIlmo' ghu, megh vutlaHbe' tey'be'wI'.
> Because the baby lost the knife, my cousin could not make lunch.

Is the losing a completed event? If it is, you should say {SIjwI' 
chIlpu'mo' ghu} "because the baby lost the knife." Otherwise it's more 
like "because the baby loses the knife," where it's not just a thing 
that happened, but something that tends to happen or might happen. 
{chIl} doesn't express a state.

Compare that with the main clause, wherein the verb {vutlaHbe'} 
expresses a state (inability to cook), so isn't a completed action.

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