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Re: Creative ways to form relative clauses?

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Monday, December 22, 2008, 21:33
Hallo!

In Old Albic, a relative clause is led in by a particle
which is the same as the definite article is inflected
for the gender, number and case of the head noun (or,
with a headless clause, of the entity specified by the
relative clause).  In the clause itself, if the head
noun occupies a non-core slot, a resumptive pronoun
appears.

Examples:

o ndaro [o matása am cagal]
the man REL:M(AGT) eats the cake(OBJ)
'the man who eats the cake'

am cagal [am matása on ndaro]
the cake REL:I(OBJ) eats the man(AGT)
'the cake which the man eats'

am cath [am matása on ndaro am cagal tathal]
the house REL:I(Obj) eats the man(AGT) the cake(OBJ) it-LOC
'the house which the man eats the cake at'

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