So firstly, a complement clause is the clause that is mostly expressed with that in English. For example: I saw, that he slept. Headless relative clauses would be relative clauses but without a head, obviously. Something like the sleeping one though one is used as a dummy head in this case, some other languages would use just the sleeping, like Latin for example.
The sentence ilapim phaiatasa could either mean I saw, that he sleeps or I saw the sleeping one. However how important is this destinction though? I mean of course it's my conlang but how realistic is that cross-linguistically? Who knows maybe it's a very important feature cross linguistically and I just remove it.
Before I changed that the second meaning was expressed through the use of the prefix tzha-, so that the sentence would be: itzhalapim phaiatasa I saw the sleeping one.
PS: I believe I heard that some north american languages do the same. I think it was Navajo, but I'm not sure.
What's the importance of complement and relative clauses?
What's the importance of complement and relative clauses?
I am not native to english, so there could be some errors in my grammar, spelling or the choice of words.
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Re: What's the importance of complement and relative clauses
"I don't like the sleeping one" is not the same as "I don't like that he sleeps".
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
Re: What's the importance of complement and relative clauses
I don't like the one who sleeps and I don't like the sleeping one are roughly equivalent, relative/participial, respectively.
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