Re: Comparison of sentences

 --- caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
escribió:

> Let me see if I can explain my problem more clearly.
>
> 1. I sat at my desk
> 2. longer than
> 3. the day has hours
>
> 1. I sat at my desk
> 2. for a time longer than
> 3. the day has hours
>
> Are these two independent clauses or is #3 a
> dependent clause?
Santiago skribur:

I don't know what traditional grammar would say as
regards the analysis of this, but to make things
clearer, I would paraphrase this sentence into:

I sat at my desk for a time longer than the time
represented by the hours of the day.

There you can see that the object of "than" is the
noun phrase "the time ..." , which in turn contains a
relative clause "...(that is) represented by the hours
of the day."

So, the basic structure would be:

I sat(...)for a time longer than the time (...).

which is a whole sentence with one main clause and 2?
dependent clauses.

So, you could use the word "time" in your conlang for
the object of "than" and try to construct a post
modifier of the word "time".
That's the way I'd do it.

> I am heavier
> than ("in comparison to" in Senjecas)
> he (him)
>
> In this structure "he (him)" is the object of the
> postposition "than."
Should be called a preposition, though.

> In the previous example there is no noun or pronoun
> to be the
> object of "than."
As I wrote above, the noun prhase is "the time".

> And that is my problem.  How do I express
> "comparative + than" when
> it links two clauses & not two substantives?  It
> seem to me that
> what is being compared is "I sat" & "day has."
Things being compared are "a length of time" with
"another length of time"

Hope this helps :)

Santiago


	
	
		
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