mark: marker
A marker is the word marking a clause as subordinate to another clause. The marker is a dependent of the subordinate clause head.
For a complement clause, this is words like թե/tʻe “that”, which is also the most common complementizer for verbs of speech and cognition.
Հարցանէր ի նոցանէ թե ուր ծնանիցի Քրիստոս ն : \n He inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born .
ccomp(Հարցանէր, ծնանիցի)
mark(ծնանիցի, թե)
For an adverbial clause, the marker is typically a subordinating conjunction.
Եւ իբրեւ մկրտեցաւ Յիսուս ել վաղվաղակի ի ջրոյ անտի : \n And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water .
advcl(ել, մկրտեցաւ)
mark(մկրտեցաւ, իբրեւ)
advcl(went, baptized)
mark(baptized, when)
References
Jensen, Hans. 1959. Altarmenische Grammatik. Heidelberg: Winter.
Klein, Jared. 2017. The syntax of Armenian. In: J. Klein et al. (eds.), Handbook of comparative and historical Indo-European linguistics. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter: 1097‒1115.
Ouzounian, Agnès. 1992. Le discours rapporté en arménien classique. Louvain-La-Neuve: Peeters, 1992.
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