Walton Janice. Binongan Itneg sentences

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1975. — 92 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series B 32).In Itneg, as in many other languages, clauses combine to form sentences in three ways: (a) the combining of two or more independent or nuclear elements, (b) the combining of two dependent or subordinate elements, and (c) the combining of one or more peripheral or subordinate elements with a nucleus (Longacre 1968:11:1 28, 1970:783). Of the twenty-five types of independent sentence identified in Itneg to date, one has a simple nucleus, nine have nuclei composed of two or more independent elements, ten have nuclei composed of one independent element plus one dependent element, and five have nuclei composed of two mutually dependent elements. All of these sentences may be expanded by the optional addition of anouter periphery and/or an inner periphery. In addition there is one type of dependent sentence (with eight subtypes). It is a relator-axis sentence (RAS) and occurs both as a dependent element in some of the sentence nuclei and also as an inner periphery.
The sentence types other than simple and Relator-Axis sentences are displayed by abbreviated tagmemic formulas in TableI (see overleaf).