Re: CHAT: Brainstorming! Relative clauses

I wrote:

>>>>>>
> rel. oblique:
> "The mouse that the cat chewed on." or,
> "The cat that the dog was bigger than."
This would be dealt with exactly the same as "rel. indirect object"
<<<<<<

LIES!  Total wrongness, but my mind was elsewhere at the time.

They would be:

FAR implies "further, greater, beyond" and all that jazz.
CMP shows comparative, and marks both the thing and attribute being compared.

> "The mouse that the cat eats."
musip katororur phowpheprur
musi.p    kato.r.o.ru.r     phowphe.p.ru.r
mouse.G5  cat.G4.FAR.AT.G4  eat.G5.AT.G4
"The eaten-by-the-cat mouse"

I don't know if it should be "katororuk" or "katororur".  If it's "katororuk",
where do I show the G6 in "eats"?  Any ideas, anyone?

> "The cat that the dog is bigger than."
kanit katorrek makheroret
kani.t  kato.r.re.k    makhe.k.o.re.t
dog.G3  cat.G4.CMP.G6  big.G6.FAR.CMP.G3
"The bigger-than-the-cat dog"
Actually, this isn't even right is it?  I must be overworked.  It's the closest
I can get for now, apart from "The smaller-than-the-dog cat", which also
probably doesn't express it accurately.  I may post an improvement after more
cigarettes and coffee.










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