Re: CHAT: Brainstorming! Relative clauses
From: | Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 18:37 |
I wrote:
>>>>>>
> rel. posessor:
> "The dog saw the cat whose teeth were huge."
Erm, more research is required. I can say "The dog saw the teeth of the huge
cat", which I guess is close, but not close enough.
<<<<<<
I can also do "The dog saw the big teeth of the cat", which is probably how a
native Wewnet would produce the same sentiment.
It goes a little something like this:
kuni.t thethni.p makhe.p.ta.k kato.p.ce.k phithphe.p.nge"e".t
-ta- is the "no nonsense" attributive marker (ie used when the attribute is
without comparison)
-ce- is the "component" genetive
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