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SECTION XIII : PHONETIC PHENOMENA IN
THE SENTENCE.
291. In the interior of the sentence we may either meet with the same phonetic phenomena as in the interior of words, or with different ones.
I. In the standard dialect of Tontemboan a k after an i changes into a c, both in the sentence and in the individual word. Hence in the story told by S. Pandey, Schwarz-Texts, pp. 12 seqq., we not only get on p. 13, l. 25, lalic < lalik, "to go to law (about something or other)", but also in l. 23 si cayu < si kayu, "the tree".
II. In the Kawangkoqan dialect the change of k into c takes place only within the word, not in the sentence. Hence in the story told by A. W. Rompas in the Kawangkoqan dialect, p. 156, 1. 5, we read pasicolaan, "school-house", from WB sicola < sikola, but on p. 155, 1. 11, we find si kayu, "the tree".
292. A sentence may either be a perfect unit, or may contain within it certain parts which combine into a more closely connected group. Such groups may either be knit together more intimately by the sense, thus to the Hnguistic consciousness of the people of Nias the combination of "principal word + subjective genitive" is more intimate than that of "principal word + objective genitive". Or the closer relation between certain parts of a sentence may be constituted by the fact that they are subordinated to a single accentor stress). This is the case with the group of "proclitic or enclitic + word of substance". — Now in these groups of more intimate relation phonetic phenomena may occur which other-wise do not appear in the body of the sentence (see § 302).
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