Re: Creative ways to form relative clauses?

> Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:
> How do your conlangs handle this type of construction?  Any
> creative (read: non-English and Romance language) ways to handle
> this?
Senjecas is SOV. It is my understanding that in this type of language
all modifiers are placed before what is modified; it also uses
postpositions.  I'm sorry I can't quote my source(s), there have been
so many.  This is how it is done in Senjecas:

In place of a relative pronoun, Senjecas uses a relativizer, "jet-."
When used as a pronoun, it is declined in the appropriate class,
e.g., "jetus," who; "jetos," what; "jetusyo," whose.  When used as
the object of a postposition the relativizer is suffixed with the
appropriate postpostion: "jetafa," off of which; "jeþkemta,"
alongside of which; "jetena," at which, where, etc.

I hate the man who hit me yesterday.

m-us jet-us m-um jhes-aamr-ëvi per paalg-a mhir-um tsed-a.

I-NM.sg who-NM.sg I-AC.sg yester-day-ADV PAST hit-IND man-ACC.sg hate-
IND

Charlie

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