Re: Looking for interesting ways to handle relative clauses.

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)

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