Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cogn Psychol. 2015 May 27;80:73–108. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2015.03.004

Table 2.

Example of the four sentential constructions for filler verbs in the four language variants.

2-NP Sentences 1-NP Sentences 0-NP Sentences
Language
Variant		 Locus of
Marking		 Cue
Order
(I) V Early Bobu fami nunu Bobu nunu Bobu
(II) V Late Nunu fami bobu Nunu bobu Bobu
(III) NP Late Bobu fami nunu-tu Bobu nunu Bobu
(IV) NP Early Nunu-tu fami bobu Nunu bobu Bobu