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36. Ka-i po-oli. Po-oli koie ica
then-3sNOM AF-buy AF-buy that fish mo-koko-ndou ee.
STV-feel-drink water NOM,monV
„Then he bought it. He bought that thirst fish.‟ Icadiu 017
RRD Actor: 1 Und.: 1
TP Actor: 7 Und.: 5
The topicality measures for this cluster of clause types are shown in Table 104.
TABLE 104 TOPICALITY MEASURES FOR SECOND ACTIVE
FUNCTIONAL VOICE CLUSTER IN MORONENE
n=83
Anaphoric Continuity Cataphoric Importance
Referential Distance
Anaphoric Continuity
Actor Undergoer
Topic Persistence Actor
Undergoer 1
High: 10 75
30 High: 3-10
80 42
2-3 Med.: 9-9.5
16 17
4-19 Low: 1-8
8 19
Low: 0-2 20
58 19 Reactiv.
V. Low: 0.5 4
20 New V. Low: 0
1 30
Standard Deviation 1.22
4.42 Standard Dev.
2.84 2.72
Mean Anaphoric Continuity 9.61
5.98 Mean Topic Pers.
5.30 2.77
Mean Anaphoric Continuity Difference 3.63
Mean Topic Persistence Dif. 2.53
By both topicality measures the actor is considerably more topical than the undergoer. Actors with high cataphoric importance exceed undergoers by a large margin:
80 - 42 = 38. As measured by anaphoric continuity, actors have quite high topicality, with 91 having high or medium anaphoric continuity. By both measures,
undergoers retain considerable topicality: 47 have high or medium anaphoric continuity, and 42 have high cataphoric importance. Hence this cluster matches the
category of active functional voice.
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High Topicality Active Functional Voice Cluster
The next cluster, in the top middle part of Figure 7, is made up of the two clause types shown in Table 105, listed in decreasing order of mean PC1.
TABLE 105 PC1 AND PC2 AVERAGES FOR HIGH TOPICALITY
ACTIVE FUNCTIONAL VOICE CLUSTER IN MORONENE Clause Type
Occurrences Mean PC1
Mean PC2 V-Opro
113 -0.208
0.684
NOM,V-Opro 48
-0.600 0.549
In terms of PCA scores, the mean PC1 scores are between -0.2 and -0.6, indicating that the undergoer is more topical than the actor. The mean PC2 scores are
between 0.5 and 0.7, indicating that overall topicality is high. Syntactically these two clause types share the features of having a pronominal or implicit subject and a verb with
suffixed pronominal object. The following are examples:
37. ndee wosu n-taa-o, rasai m-ponae-ho
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