Re: Subordinate clauses
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 17, 2004, 21:45 |
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Sally Caves wrote:
> > >In Teonaht you'd
> > >probably say: "the man that I saw his dog was green."
hahaha! It just struck me that with one intonation, and in the
"parody-Yiddish" dialect, you're saying that the man was green!!!
That's actually how Kash expresses "whose" in a RC--
The man whose dog I saw was green
Kaçut re matikas peroñi (,) yatroçe.
man REL I-saw dog-his 3s-green
Likewise Indonesian, though it's awkward and a little off-standard:
Orang yang anjingnya kulihat(,) hijau
man REL dog-his by.me-see , (is/was)green
In both cases, a break in intonation is necessary to separate the subject
clause from the verb.