--- On Sat, 12/20/08, Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:
> From: Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...>
> Hello fellow conlangers,
>
...
>
> Currently, my conlang follows the English model, and thus
> the relative
> clause structure of the sentence "I hate the man who
> hit me yesterday"
> would be quite similar in my conlang. I'd rather do it
> some other way since
> the rest of my grammar is decidedly non-English.
My peculiar conlang Soaloa has a very strict limit on the complexity of a
sentence. Thoughts are broken down into a string of clauses bound together with
certain special pronoun-type linking words that relate back to subjects or
objects of previous clauses. <http://fiziwig.com/soaloa/soaloa.html> Most often
the clauses are treated as complete sentences.
Your example would definitely need to broken into two separate sentences:
Yesterday man hit me; (previous object = me) hate (previous subject = man).
Even such simple concepts as "My red crayon is broken." needs to be subdivided into
"I have crayon; It that-is red; same is broken." So the whole issue of relative
clauses evaporates in the simplicity of Soaloa syntax.
--gary