Re: Syntactic differences within parts of speech

What verb are you using for buy? Something like
<kaitoru> ? The word I learned was <kau>, I guess this
is some sort of compound, like kai+toru..maybe
"buy-take"? Or something.
 -elliott

> ObConlang: in S17 (the wordless one), I've stolen
> the Japanese/Korean
> style where internally headed relative clauses
> (IHRC) (a construction
> unknown to English) are used for descriptive
> meaning, and externally
> headed relative clauses (EHRC) (those that English
> and German use) for
> restrictive meaning (I don't know whether the
> semantic distinction is
> that clear in Japanese and Korean, but at least it
> is in my Conlang
> :-)):
>
>    EHRC:
>        [kinou     kaitotta] sakana-wa ii.
>        [yesterday bought]   fish-TOP  good.
>
>        ('fish' is outside the relative clause, thus
> externally headed)
>
>        'The fish [I] bought yesterday is good.'
>
>    IHRC
>       [kinou     sakana-o kaitotta]-no-wa   ii.
>       [yesterday fish-OBJ bought]  -RES-TOP
>
>       ('fish' is inside the relative clause and
> referred to from the
>       outside by the resumptive particle 'no').
>
>         'The fish, which I bought yesterday, is
> good.'
>      or 'The fish, which was bought yesterday, is
> good.'
>
> (Please don't hesitate to correct mistakes in my
> badly broken
> Japanese.)
>
> **Henrik
>

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