Re: Subordinate clauses

Aaron Grahn wrote:
>
> Is there a good way to introduce a subordinate clause without a
> particle? For instance in
>
> The dog with the man that I saw was green.
>
> the relative clause is introduced with "that". This is probably a bad
> example, because English doesn't really distinguish (except by word
> order) which one I saw, and which one was with the one that I saw, but
> assume I saw a dog, the dog was with a man, and the dog was green.
I haven't worked out the vocabulary yet, but in my language Uteg,
this would be:

    Was-green  the  dog  with  the  man  seen-by-me.

Generally there is no special word or particle to introduce a
relative clause, but the headword must serve as the subject
of the relative clause. (Verbs have forms for active, passive,
and possibly oblique.)


> ROMANI
>     ITE
> DOMUM
This reminds me of the scene in the film "Life of Brian" where
Brian paints "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS" on the side of a
public building during the night, but gets caught by a centurion
who helps him with his Latin.

--Ph. D.

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