Re: Lahabic Syntax

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 01:15:38AM -0700, Marcus Smith wrote:
> H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> >Yeah... maybe I should start translating the description of my conlang
> >into the conlang itself :-P
>
> Ouch! :-)
Why ouch? :-)

[snip]
> >Hmm. What's the difference between a subordinate clause and a relative
> >clause?
>
> A subordinate clause usually is related to the verb.  For example in "I
> know that you are coming", "that you are coming" is the subordinate clause
> because it is the thing that is known.
>
> A relative clause usually is related to a noun.  "The man who is coming is
> my friend."  "who is coming" is the relative clause, because it makes the
> noun phrase "the man" more specific.
[snip]

Ah! Now I get it... no wonder I'm having problems with my current
subordinate clause construction -- I didn't distinguish between relative
and subordinate clauses, and I ran into some rather major ambiguity
problems. I'll have this fixed soon, now that I know what the problem is
:-)


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