Indirect Object Relativization Constituents Accessible to Relativization

218 a. Lo-soka sikalho ly-kasiparan abo. he-chop sugarcane his-machete with ‘He chopped sugarcane with his machete.’ b. Ly-wada-bo ly-kasiparan [lo-soka sikalho › abo]. he-search-PRES his-machete he-chop sugarcane › with ‘He is looking for his machete that he chops sugarcane with.’

4.4.4.1 Postposition stranding

The contrast between the acceptability of relativizing the noun phrase in an indirect ob- ject postpositional phrase and its unacceptability in other postpositional phrases shows up even more clearly when one considers examples of the benefactive use of the postposition myn . In addition to being used to indicate an indirect object, myn is also used in the sort of benefactive phrases that can be added to almost any event clause. 219 a. Na-reke-bo to koban to hiaro myn. they-weed-PRES the planting.ground the woman for ‘They are weeding the planting ground for the woman.’ b. To hiaro andy-fa kasiri abo na-myn. the woman arrive-FUT cassava.beer with them-for ‘The woman will come with cassava beer for them.’ When myn is used as a benefactive in this way, rather than to indicate the indirect object, then it acts like any other postposition and cannot be stranded. 220. To hiaro na-reke-bo to koban › myn andy-fa kasiri abo the woman they-weed-PRES the planting.ground › for arrive-FUT cassava.beer with ‘The woman they are clearing the planting ground for will come with cassava beer.’ The locative postpositional phrases associated with verbs of motion such as osyn ‘to go’ and andyn ‘to arrive’ also seem to be part of the VP, 7 and yet the postpositions of those phrases cannot be stranded, either. 221 a. L-osa to sikoa loko-nro. he-go the house in-toward ‘He went into the house.’ b. Da-dykha to sikoa [ama l-osa › loko-nro]. I-see the house [what he-go › in-toward] I saw the house he went into. 222 a. L-anda to onikhan amyn. he-arrive the creek atby ‘He arrived at the creek.’ 4.4 Constituents Accessible to Relativization 93 7 As is the case with direct and indirect objects, nothing other than certain aspect words can come between a motion verb and the locative for which it subcategorizes. See Sections 3.2.1.3 for a discussion of event sentence structure.