Re: Doing without relative, coordinate and subordinate clauses?
| From: | Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 1, 2007, 9:15 |
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In the last episode, (On Sunday 01 July 2007 03:44:58),
MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/30/2007 10:50:11 AM Central Daylight Time,
>
> jeff.rollin@GMAIL.COM writes:
> > I
> > wanted to do without relative, coordinate and subordinate clauses, and
> > use participles and the like instead, I had no idea how to go about it.
>
> From your example it looks like you are not eliminating any of those types
> of clauses, but only changing the form. The relative clause reminds me of
> Chinese and Japanese.
>
> stevo </HTML>
Yes, that would probably be more accurate. The model is Chinese, Japanese and
other languages that are restricted to one finite verb per sentence, not
Piraha!
Jeff
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