Re: Subordinate clauses

En réponse à Jonathan Knibb :

  Le type que j'ai vu, là, vert qu'il était, son chien.

>At the risk of starting YA-French-syntax-T, may I ask how
>our resident French experts would analyse the third
>example?  If one interprets the "qu'" five words back from
>the end as signalling a relative clause (as in 'que j'ai vu'),
>then 'vert qu'il etait' appears to be an adjective phrase
>putting itself forward as a sentence ... an odd situation.
This is simply a short form of "c'est vert qu'il était, son chien". 
"C'est... que" (and thus by extension "que" after a word) is the standard 
Spoken French way of topicalising, and it just happens that Spoken French 
can topicalise adjectives as well as nouns.

All pretty simple and not special for a polysynthetic language ;) .

Christophe Grandsire.

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