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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? >