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This bone of the dog's (literally "the dog's this bone"). | This bone of the dog's (literally "the dog's this bone"). | ||
===Relative Clauses=== | |||
In the same way as with adjectives, Kämpya places relative clauses before the head noun if they are restrictive, and after the noun if they are non-restrictive e.g. | |||
/gáʔɾ=zù káiʔk kʰwèi̤ pjèi̤/ | |||
lizard=ERG bite dog flee | |||
The dog that the lizard had bitten fled. | |||
Or, using a non-restrictive relative clause: | |||
/kʰwèi̤ gáʔɾ=zù káiʔk pjèi̤/ | |||
dog lizard=ERG bite flee | |||
The dog, which the lizard had bitten, fled. | |||
However, in Kämpya and unlike in English, the accessibility hierarchy is very important [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_clause#Accessibility_hierarchy]. In every case, the head noun must be the absolutive argument of the verb in the relative clause. If it would not normally be so, then it must be put into the absolutive case by strategies such as antipassivisation on the verb e.g. | |||
/θú=káiʔk kʰwèi̤=jàuŋ gáʔɾ pjèi̤/ | |||
ANTIP=bite dog=DAT lizard flee | |||
The lizard that had bitten the dog fled. | |||
Or an applicative construction can be used e.g. | |||
/gáʔɾ=zù káiʔk=dè kʰwèi̤=jàuŋ pʰáˈzè̤t nóuʔp/ | |||
lizard=ERG bite=in dog=DAT forest small | |||
The forest that the lizard bit the dog in is small. | |||