Re: Clauses, etc

Hey! "subordinate clause terminator" is a great name for that!
"D(a)" and "il" are like indonesian "itu" then:
Orang yang John sudah lihat kemarin itu jadi marah.
Man John already see yesterday itu become angry.

The clause terminator in my conlang is "wo":
Taka i-John a-toli kite kama u-cali babame wo a-cike.
Man who-John verb-already see him in-day precedent wo verb-angry.
The fact that nihk comes before the subclause is unusual and fun.

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Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> wrote:
Basically,
>you enclose the clause in "nihk...il"  if I am trying to say, "The man that
>john hit yesterday is angry" Using that in English is should turn out to be
>"Nihk The man john his yesterday il is angry". You follow?  I hope I've got
>the right idea with clauses here.
in MNCL, relative clauses start with the relative pronoun {y-} and end with
a pronoun {d-}, as in:
Zo (man)o ya (John)u (hit)e (yesterday)i da (angry)ize.
"The man [whom] John hit yesterday is angry".
This can be broken down as:
Z-o  (man)-o      y-a (John)-u (hit)-e (yesterday)-i  d-a (angry)-iz-e
DEF-QUAL (V)-QUAL REL-ABS  (V)-ERG (V)-PRED   (V)-OBL SCT-ABS (V)-PRS-PRED
DEF  anaphoric pronoun/determiner (definite article in this case)
REL  relative pronoun
SCT  subordinate clause terminator
(V)  a general vocabulary item
PRS  present tense
QUAL this word qualifies what follows directly
ABS  absolutive case
ERG  ergative case
OBL  oblique case; used for adverbial stuff
PRED predicative or essive "case"; the syntactic verb
Does this help?
Jeff


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