9,124
edits
Brooding: Difference between revisions
→Modifying Nouns
Bpnjohnson (talk | contribs) |
Bpnjohnson (talk | contribs) |
||
| Line 264: | Line 264: | ||
Unlike other modifiers to the noun, demonstratives appear before the noun. Note that Brooding has no distinct words that are articles (i.e. "the", "a/an"). Rather when "the" would be used in English, a Brooding speaker would use a demonstrative instead. There is no equivalent to "a/an". | Unlike other modifiers to the noun, demonstratives appear before the noun. Note that Brooding has no distinct words that are articles (i.e. "the", "a/an"). Rather when "the" would be used in English, a Brooding speaker would use a demonstrative instead. There is no equivalent to "a/an". | ||
==== Noun clauses ==== | |||
A noun clause is a clause that, instead of modifying a noun, replaces a noun in a sentence. English has a few versions of a noun clause. For example, in "He saw that I hit him", "that I hit him" is a noun clause. It is the action "I hit him" that is being seen. In this case, it is the object of the sentence. English sometimes drops the "that" (e.g. "He saw I hit him"), but it still remains as a replacement for a noun. | |||
The other English variation is to use an infinitive verb in places of a noun: "I want to hit him." This is equivalent to "I want that I hit him". Once again, "I hit him" is the object of the noun. | |||
In Brooding, there is only one form for this sort of construction. The action of the dependent clause is converted into a noun (as per the rules for nominalization) and then it modified by prepositional phrases and relative clauses. In Brooding, "I want to hit him" would be: | |||
''leed okhair indpeg leeld oofruh fosh'' | |||
I want hit-action I-POSS of he/she | |||
literally "I want my hitting of him" | |||
=== Denominalization === | === Denominalization === | ||