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Re: a request.

From:Paul Bennett <paulnkathy@...>
Date:Monday, January 17, 2000, 20:49
7F00,0000,0000Courier New> On 16 Jan 00, at 16:20, B Elliott Walker wrote:
> > > âllo, all... > > > > i'v been piddling about with my new lang, here, (while i should have been > > doing my syntax assignment, alas) and i was wondering how yous do > > relative clauses in your langs, as i'm currently looking for ideas. > > >
Many moons ago, mathias asked about the same thing, with a set of example questions. I answered at the time regarding Wenetaic. Here's my reply to his post, which became part of the official Wenetaic examples: (There are a number of ways in which this is lexically no longer good Wenetaic, as I've re-done a lot of roots in light of actually having something to base them on , but grammatically I think it's just fine) Appologies if the formatting is off, I'm having one or two minor technical issues with my mailer.
> rel. subject: > "The dog that saw the cat was large."
kuni.t kato.r phithphe.r.yi.t a.t makhme.t dog.g3 cat.g4 see.g4.DAT.g3 0.g3 be-big.g3
> rel. object: > "The dog saw the cat that killed the mouse."
kuni.t kato.r musi.p mortu.p.ru.r a.r a.t phithphe.r.yi.t dog.g3 cat.g4 mouse.g5 kill.g5.ACC.g4 0.g4 0.g3 see.g4.DAT.g3
> nested: > "The dog that saw the cat that killed the mouse that was large drank > from the river that John put the poison in."
I had to break this down into its component parts to translate it, so I'll show them here: 1) musip makhmep - the big mouse 2) kator 1 mortupyir ar - the cat that kills 1 3) kunit 2 phithpheryit at 4 phowpheprut - the dog that sees 2 drinks 4 4) purop Yonus patopayis ap - the river that John poisons kuni.t, kato.r musi.p makhme.p mortu.p.ru.r a.r phithphe.r.yi.t dog.g3 cat.g4 mouse.g5 be-big.g5 kill.g5.ACC.g4 0.g4 see.g4.DAT.g3 a.t, puro.p, Yonu.s pato.p.a.yi.s a.p, phowphe.p.ru.t 0.g3 river.g5 John.g2 sickness.g5.near.DAT.g2 0.g5 eat/drink.g5.ACC.g3
> rel. indirect object: > "The dog that John gave the ball to."
kuni.t para.t.yi.p Yonu.s inri.t.yi.s a.p (a.t) dog.g3 ball.g3.DAT.g5 John.g2 move.g3.DAT.g2 0.g5 (0.g3)
> rel. oblique: > "The mouse that the cat chewed on." or,
musi.p kato.r phowphe.p.ru.r (a.p) mouse.g5 cat.g4 eat/drink.g5.ACC.g4 (0.g4)
> "The cat that the dog was bigger than."
kato.r kuni.t makhme.r.re.t (a.r) cat.g4 dog.g3 be-big.g4.REL-ATT.g3 (0.g4) The above three would probably simply be phrased as a direct SVO sentance, rather than as above, unless they were part of a bigger phrase (eg) "The cat that the dog was bigger than ate a mouse"
> rel. posessor: > "The dog saw the cat whose teeth were huge."
kuni.t kato.r thethni.r.ce.p makhme.ta.p a.r dog.g3 cat.g4 teeth.g4.COMP.g5 be-big.EMPH-ATT.g5 0.g4 phithphe.r.yi.t see.g4.DAT.g3