Sorry for the delayed response
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:41:56 -0500, Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
wrote:
>Jeff Jones sekalge:
> "How are relative and participial clauses handled? Does the relative
> pronoun always take the trigger? Does the trigger case affix on the verb
> indicate the case of the participle's implied subject?"
>
>We can only offer generalizations and precedents. However, I'd guess that
>the clauses are no different than normal (whatever "normal" is for your
>language).
OK. That's what I'd like to do.
>I would think that the relative pronoun would never get the trigger,
>since it's not acting like a noun. (Forgive my ignorance of terms. I
>consider myself a layman and always use small words that I'm sure to
>understand.)
I have trouble with terms myself. But I thought the relative pronoun was a
syntactical place-holder for the noun.
>You could have participles that have triggers and work that way, but
>there's no reason to force the most described noun to be the most
>important. And what would happen when you have multiple participles?
I'm not sure I understand this, but then I see my question wasn't all that
clear either.
>~Wright, with an acceptable Dvorak speed
Jeff