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Re: Subordinate clauses

From:william drewery <will65610@...>
Date:Thursday, June 17, 2004, 5:03
--- "Ph. D." <phild@...> wrote:
> 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 think that in Turkish you use participles for relative clauses, and it comes out something like: greening dog with-man I saw Turkish doesn't use articles, adjectives precede nouns and there's accusative case, so it's less amibuous than my rough translation suggests. Some other languages might put it together as: The dog, the green one with the man I saw. Travis > 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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