Re: Creative ways to form relative clauses?

Hi!

I think the relevance of my preferences is questionable, as I think SOVly,
but see how early IE languages make it:


Sanskrit:

yas me azvas, sa mRtas. (with sandhi: yo me 'zvaH, sa mRtaH.)

[the] horse (azvas - nom. sing. masc.) which (yas - nom. sing. masc.) [is]
mine (me), 'he' (sa - nom. sing. masc.) [is] dead (mRtas - nom. sing.
masc.). Or 'my horse is dead' ; ).


Latin (sometimes):

iter in ea loca facere coepit, quibus in locis esse Germanos audiebat.

[he] started (coepit) to march (iter facere) in those places (in ea loca),
in which places (quibus in locis) [he] heard (audiebat) the germans were
(Germanos esse... accusativus cum infinitivo is another matter : ) ). Or: He
started to march in those places he heard the germans were.

I had some written examples, 'but the annotations which were mine, those I
see are gone.' ; ). See this, anyway:

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Edgard.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...>wrote: