Re: Creative ways to form relative clauses?

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:22 AM, caeruleancentaur
<caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:

> Senjecas is SOV. It is my understanding that in this type of language
> all modifiers are placed before what is modified; it also uses
> postpositions.  I'm sorry I can't quote my source(s), there have been
That's the tendency, although there are a fair
number of exceptions.  It seems there are a lot
more SOV languages with relative clause following
the noun than there are VSO languages
with the relative clause preceding the noun;
maybe there is a tendency to put heavy
modifiers after their heads which reinforces the
head-modifier tendency in VSO languages but
counteracts the modifier-head tendency in
SOV languages, with respect to heavy
modifiers like genitive phrases and relative
clauses.

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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/