Re: Subordinate clauses

--- "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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