3.5.4.1. Internal structure of manner clauses
Manner meaning in LIS can be expressed by two different structures. They may be dependent clauses in the form of a free relative clause (SYNTAX 3.4). As such, they are dependent on a main clause and they contain the wh-element how surfacing at the end of the manner clause, but no head noun, as in the sentence below.
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ix2 2explain1 how rice ix1 cook done
‘I cooked the rice the way you explained to me.’
A manner meaning can also be expressed by an adverbial dependent clause introduced by a subordinating sign, as the sign identical in the sentence below.
ix2 house build identical time past
‘You built the house as they used to do in the past.’
