3.3.3.2 Integration of the role shifted clause into the main clause
The complements of attitude role shift clauses have a unique positional character. While the sentential complements of TİD verbs take sentential complements either before the verb (for example, verbs such as want [Syntax – 3.3.2.2.]), or following the verb (for example verbs such as think [Syntax – 3.3.2.2.]), the role shift clauses introduced by say can occur in either position as in the examples below.
ix3 say … sister eat grow beat
‘He says my sister fed me, nurtured me, beat me’.
hour five go hour five necessary go say
‘She said I must go at five o’clock.’
(Kelepir & Göksel, 2013: 200-201)
Moreover, specific non-manual markers and a prosodic break (pause) occurs between say and the role shifted complement clause.
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