Re: Relative clauses

Hi!

Keith Gaughan <writes:
>...
> In Térnaru, relative clauses can't be directly expressed. Instead, they
> need to be transformed into an NP of some kind. A phrase like "The man
> who John sees" would become "The man of seeing of/by John". Similarly,
> the two sentences you gave would become something like "I know the time
> of going of/by you" and "I know the place of going of/by you".
Funny!  My Tesäfköm is the other extreme: adjectives do not exist and
instead, relative clauses must be used.  The language even lacks a
possessive construction (e.g. genivite case, construct state, or some
particle) but for inalienable possession (my arm), and you need to use,
guess what, a relative clause.  E.g. 'my father' -> 'the father I
descend from'.

**Henrik