Manner Serialization Inaq nyuruq Ariq oleq mandiq.
58
Ariq meneq m-basaq-an kasur.
brother N.urinate N.make.wet bed ‘Brother has urinated the bed.’
Based on those two clauses, cause-effect serialization can be formed by two verbs in which express the cause and the effect. In clause 57, cause verb belabur
‘flood’ precedes the effect verb ngilihan
‘float’. In clause 58, the nasal verb meneq ‘urinate’ is the cause of the second verb mbasaqan
‘make wet’. In those clauses, intransitive verb is stating cause, while transitive verb is stating effect. Clauses 57 and 58 above are
an independent serial verb which all of the verbs in the construction have the complete inflectional morphology.
In this case, the cause-effect serialization can be exchanged into effect-cause serialization. In effect-cause serialization, the effect verb is intransitive verb, while the
cause verb is transitive verb. The following examples of effect-cause serialization, as seen in:
59 Kakaq
ngeleleq nggitaq Tiang terik.
sister laugh see 1-S fall
‘Sister laughs a lot saw me felt.’ 60
Inaq nangis njangoq Niniq sakit.
mother N.cry N.visit grandmother sick ‘Mother can’t hold her tears while visiting Grandmother in the hospital.’
Based on those three examples above, cause-effect serial verb constructions in Sasak can be formed with two serial verbs which stating effect-cause. In clause 59,
the effect verb ngeleleq ‘laugh’ is followed by the cause verb nggitaq ‘see’. In clause
60, the effect verb nangis ‘cry’ is followed by the cause verb menjangoq ‘visit’.
Clauses 59 and 60 above are classified co-dependent serial verb constructions in which share argument and as the parts of the constructions depend on
each other. Both OBJ of the matrix clause Ariq ‘Brother in clause 59 and Niniq
‘Grandmother’ in clause 60 are the SUBJ of the subordinate clause. The examples of cause-effect serialization of Sasak above have similarity with the
semantic types of serial verb constructions in Keo, as Baird 2008: 60 stated that the cause-effect serial verb constructions are conceived of as consisting of distinct sub-
events which are temporally ordered, as seen in clauses above.