ABSTRACT
Aclassificationofthese!(elational)-signsasdescribedbyPerlmutterandPostal(1983a:86)ispresentedin (2). (2)
R-signs
IRetirementR-signs CoreR-signs
TermR-signs ObliqueR-signs
Clausestructureisrepresentedbyasetofprimitive
!-signs(denotingthenameofsomegrammaticalrelation), aswellasasetofcoordinateswhichidentifythelevel
representinglinguisticelements.Itisalso
necessarytorecognizeanumberofdistinctsyntactic
thesharedcoordinate.Therelationthatholdsbetweentwo
linguisticelementsinagivenstratumisrepresentedbyan
signoccurstotheleftofthearcandthe
Thesentencein(4)isassociatedwiththerelational network(RN)in(5). (4)x-g-cu-illic'ula'al
TheRNin(5)representsthesentence'Isawthebaby' (agreementandtensenotincluded).InthisRNthereare threearcs,twonominaldependentsandoneverbaldepen-
dent,whichsharethesamegoverningnodel·Allofthe arcsin(5)shareacoordinatec1 •Thisisbecausethearcs ofthisparticularRNallbelongtothesamestratum.A
stratumisdefinedasthemaximalsetofarcswiththesame
tailsharingsomecoordinate(c1 ,c 2etc.).In(5),!! c'ula'alheadsa2-arcinthec1stratumandlainheadsa
1-arcinthec1stratum.Anelementwhichheadsa2-arc
TheRNin(5)couldalsoberepresentedinastratal diagram,asin(6). (6)
than one stratum because the arcs belonging to each stratum
(7)a. x - ~ -il -e' li c'ula'al (in-ban). tns-B3-see-pass the baby by me 'The baby was watched (by me).'
