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--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "carrajena" <carrajena@...> wrote: > > I know that some of the semitic langs are or were VSO like my > Carrajena. (Which is the reason why C-a is VSO.) But I'm not > completely satisfied with using VSO in relative clauses. Do any of > the VSO semitilangs shuffle things around for relative clauses (or > other types of sentences like questions, etc)? If so how do they re- > order things? > > Adam > I found one reference suggesting (to me, at least, given I haven't read it carefully) that Middle Egyptian might have varied the constituent order of RCs and/or of their matrix main clauses. (Apparently MiddleEgyptian had two types of Relative Clauses; "primary" RCs, like those in other languages, and "virtual" RCs, completely different from anything this author has seen in any other language. But even the Primary RCs seem to have had situationally-variable "word" order.) Look at http://people.ucsc.edu/~rkramer/CLS%2040%20VRCs%20in%20Middle%20Egyptian% 20Ruth% 20Kramer%20(small%20correction).pdf especially 3.2 Proximity to Head NP and Linear Order and "