Re: Creative ways to form relative clauses?
From: | Michael Poxon <mike@...> |
Date: | Saturday, December 20, 2008, 18:09 |
Hi,
My lang, Omina, which is exclusively suffixing and uses auxiliaries,
indicates relative clauses by adding -n to the main auxiliary's clause:
Gurte engu idedan, mai dea na.
"He killed the horse I was riding"
The main auxiliary here is "idedan" = ide- being the ergative form of 3ps
actor, -da- 3ps object and -n the relative marker. The whole thing
translates something like "He kill it the horse, (that) I go on it". In
practice, since the 3ps object is supplied by the context, the auxiliary
would
usually be rendered "iden".
Mike
>
> How do your conlangs handle this type of construction? Any creative
> (read:
> non English and romance language) ways to handle this?
>