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Re: relative clauses and VSO



Some Neo-Aramaic dialects, including the one spoken by my family 
(Isarlaic), employ various sentence structures in addition to VSO.  In 
the case of Isarlaic Aramaic, relative clauses typically do not get 
shuffled around, but rather they generally follow the antecedent 
noun.  There are rare poetic or rhetorical phrasings in which a 
relative clause may precede a noun, but such occurrences are 
uncommon.  It is the same with Hebrew, Arabic, and Modern Assyrian.  

-Jacob-  



--- 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
>