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1) Please check my literal translations: a) "To jini hu pa kay bu do bi gose fren, sa, kay zise pamose fren hu toyl sta to honseldom, sa, sa do gi dwel to hoqse dom." 'The woman who was and not now is my friend, her, and your father's friend who works is-at the bookshop, him, they now are living-in the red house.' Should 'who works is-at' be 'whose work is-at'? I had initially imagined that each "sa" would gather up its own toys plus the previously gathered "sa"-bags. But I think your way is more logical. Also, your way could be extended to include a similar usage for other pronouns and anaphora; "sa" is just the easiest and most general-purpose way. b) "kyu zi jan to jini hu pa kay bu do bi gose fren? kay zise pamose fren hu toyl sta to honseldom? Juy kay fuy do gi dwel to hoqse dom." 'Do you know-of the woman who was and not now is my friend? And your father's friend who works is-at the bookshop? J-woman and F-friend now are living-in the red house.' Could there also be a question marker "Kyu" at the outset of the second question? 2) I note that you are rigourous about using the "se" mopheme to mark a modifier, so I will be so, too. This means that two adjacent morphemes are (excluding "se") are either a compound or are two separate words that do NOT have a modifier/modified relationship, yes? 3) Just to be sure this horse is dead.... Is it agreed that, when we have two adjacent spoken morphemes, one of the following is happening: a) They form a compound or form separate words because one or both of the morphemes is from a small, readily memorized set that has specific compounding rules (e.g. "-se" marks a modifier, "go" can compound with a few other words [pronouns, specifically], articles don't compound, etc.) b) They form a compound or form separate words based on the tone profile with which they are spoken. Thus, we don't have to know Ceqli semantics exhaustively to know whether morphemes are compounding. ---Krawn