#conlanging ah, I see. There are other types of subclause I need to deal with. *brains at her conlang*
#conlanging the interesting thing here is trying to work out how they would parse a particular subclause
eg "I will provide everything you need"
I is clearly the subject and "will provide" is the verb. But the object is the noun phrase "everything you need" .... I think in this case it would be "all needful you to" so "I all needful you to provide"
And then there's things like "call me when you need me" where the subclause modifies the verb... no idea yet. I need to think about it
#conlanging there are a few ways to handle the "call me when you need me" thing
One is to have when act as a conjunction "so "you me call when need" (the you me in 2nd clause can be dropped as subject and object are the same) another is a suffix attached to to. This is perhaps the simplest solution but does it fit?.
Two structure it similarly to "the girl who stole the moon wore a red dress" but adds different a verbal prefix that indicates "at the time"
so "Need you me (particle) call"
The second solution would need a lot of prefixes for the different types of clauses but might well work okay.
The former would work but seems rather out of feeling with the rest of the language.
What do you think, toots?
@Shutsumon Grammatically, a "when you need me" clause is different from a "who stole the moon" clause.
The first is attached to a verb, and thus similar to an adverb. Could you build an adverb with the meaning of "when you need me" ?
The second is attached to a noun, and thus similar to an adjective ("who stole the moon" ~ "moon-stealing").
eg The girl who wore a red dress stole the moon and danced with the sun
Durimama afÄrife risuqi heti bo tÄmeqi kratima ra kwiruqidwi merima.
wore red dress girl moon stole and sun with danced
@Feufochmar I couldn't really build an adverb to do that with the way adverbs work.
And I didn't mean it was similar but that I could build it in a similar way.
I am tempted to go with a conjunction - that's already how I handle did x and y