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Re: Looking for interesting ways to handle relative clauses.

From:Remi Villatel <maxilys@...>
Date:Friday, October 22, 2004, 1:16
Trebor Jung wrote:

> I can't think of any ideas for my conlangs' relative clauses besides these: > as in English, Turkish (participles), and Egyptian Arabic (resumptive > pronouns).
In Shaquelingua, I managed to get rid of a lot of relative clauses through what I called the emotional case. my(EMOTIONAL) opinion: ... = I think that... The case marking in Shaquelingua would be on "my" which is just a plain article. But that's not the point, so I won't write it again. Because the nouns can be (kind of) "conjugated", you can also say: my (PAST)-opinion: ... = I thought that... Instead of opinion, it could be thought, feeling, belief, happiness, sadness, whatever. It also works with any pronoun. their (IMPLICATIVE FUTURE)-happiness: (CONDITIONAL)... = They would be happy if... our (PAST)-speech: ... = We said that... your (INTERROGATIVE FUTURE)-project: ... = Are you planning to... And I didn't even know a word about turkish grammar when I invented this. I say this because... my(EMOTIONAL) feeling: there's a great ressemblance. Shaquelingua also has resumptive postpositions. They were working *at* I went. = I went where they were working. They were working *during* I entered. = I entered when they were working. You'll play *in order to* go outside! = Go outside to play! These ones can also be re-formulated with conjugated nouns. I went-upto(1) their (PAST PROGRESSIVE)-work. I entered-into(1) their (PAST PROGRESSIVE)-work. For your (FUTURE)-game, go outside! (1) In Shaquelingua, I would conjugate "upto" and "into"... as much as it means something for a verb-less language. Shaquelingua also has resumptive pronouns --a whole bunch of them!-- but you're looking for something else. ji kexara soe, [ji: keZaxa so^e] (one tomorrow until) -- ================== Remi Villatel maxilys_@_tele2.fr ==================

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