Re: CHAT: Brainstorming! Relative clauses

In a message dated 10/4/1999 6:13:46 PM, taliesin@NUTS.EDU writes:

>I'm currently struggling with understanding the rel. cl. of my lang
>correctly, and thought I'd look at how it works in other langs.
>Unfortunately, it seems that relative clauses is part of the grammar
>that is 'not yet online' :) Does it change too often?
>
>Anyways, how -do- you do relative clauses in your conlangs? Here's
>something for y'all to translate... (substitute words when necessary...)
>
Oh it's so complicated I can't even think about it now. Maybe tomorrow. See,
in a basic sentence it's easy - you just make a little change to the verb in
the relative clause. But then depending on where the noun is in the sentence
and, the part of speech it is in each clause, you have to switch to all sorts
of ungodly word orders, and change postpositions to prepositions and vice
versa and it's messy, messy and complex. And I really have to start making up
my sleep debt....
*sigh*

Josh
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