On sequential verbs and quoting

[Plumps]

Ma frapo,

After the latest blog post with its example for pon, I was curious about this sentence: Tsun nekll zivup tsawng.

My question was about the scope of them because, potentially, you could stack as many as you want together until the end of the last songs

Did you ever decide on how far these can go? Can you have a sequence [of] more than two verbs? In other words, are (to put it to its extreme)
     1) oe fmi tivätxaw tsun tìnvi sivi
     2) ne kelku oe tätxaw yäpur yom hahaw
possible?

His reply:

But I don't think there should be more than two such verbs sequentially. If you need more, simply insert a tsakrr.

Of course, sequences of multiple modal verbs are excluded from this 'rule'.



For the next one, I can't give you a quote, unfortunately—so I have to rely on my memory. I was asking him about whether san ... sìk could be used as people like to do in our quoting formula in (written) stories: " ..., " he said, i.e., san ... sìk coming initially before the quoting formula like po plltxe.

He specifically said to me that he couldn't imagine it being used that way.

So, san ... (sìk) will always come after the introduction formula like po plltxe/pawm/ätxäle si etc.

[Wllìm]

Txantsan, irayo! The usage of sequential verbs seems pretty restricted (and I think that makes sense).

Of course, sequences of multiple modal verbs are excluded from this 'rule'.

I'm happy that constructions like oe zene nivew tsivun srivew stay possible

[Vawmataw]

Spoiler

oe zene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene nivew tsivun srivew

[Toliman]

Spoiler

oe zene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene zivene nivew tsivun srivew

HRH!