Missa: Complex Sentences: Utterance Complement Clauses: Balanced
Balanced clauses are used to reflect direct quotations, while deranked clauses are used to make indirect quotations:
vé nukénot uklin istak
[1sg home-1sg-DAT go-0-GER.LOC say-PERF-3sg.m.]
"He said I want(ed) to go home"
nukénot ukélin istak
[home-1sg-DAT go-1sg-GER.LOC say-PERF-3sg.m.]
"He said, 'I want to go home'"
