Re: Complement clauses

Quoting Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...>:

> Amanda wrote to me privately and pointed out that this post
> might have been filtered out because of the OT in the subject line. (She
> might also just have tried to be nice
> to me since there were no replies. :D  )
>
> Anyway, I'm still interested in how y'all form complement
> clauses in your conlangs, so I'll repost this question.
> All intricacies are more than welcome!
I clearly remember posting a Tairezazh version of this, compete with various
grammatical and developmental musings. I however cannot find it in the
archives, wherefore I can only conclude it was lost in the warp.

So, I'll just have to write it down again, I guess. Tairezazh uses a
conjunction _shu_ "that":

Ta nerzek shu a sulent tshóf vérer ak zdain.

_Ta_ is 1st sg pronoun, _nerzek_ the past tense of the verb _nerz-_ "to
think", _shu_ the aforementioned conjunction, _a_ "this (nom.sg)". Having no
word for "thread" in this sense, I substituted _sulent tshóf vérer_ "stupid
telling one another (things)", which breaks down as verbal stem _sul_ "to say,
to tell", gerund ending _-ent_, adjective _tshóf_ "foolish" and the dative of
the reciprocal pronoun _vér_. Finally _ak_ "was" from _ai-_ "to be" and
_zdain_ "dead".

I then had a lengthy digression 'bout the lack of word
for "debate", "dialogue" etc in Tairezazh. I jokingly suggested _dhunsulent
seizvatsh_ "bidirectional insulting" for "argument". I also gave a Steienzh
version:

Ta ñerzek shu a izer sulenn verer ek zdain.

_Izer_ [Izr=] means "ugly". You can figure the rest out yourselves ...

                                                      Andreas