Relative clauses in Phi

Listen to a relative clause arrive: whu mia to nila... Already you know a great deal. Someone is describing something; the describer is the speaker; the seeing happened in the past. What you do not yet know is the one thing English would have told you first: described what? Then the noun lands, peloru, and a flower arrives already seen, already placed in time, already yours. Phi hands you the whole description before the noun, every time.

Manual chapter 20 states the doctrine. This pamphlet is the practice ground: the mechanics of whu and the gap, headed and headless relatives in quantity, nesting and the traffic with complement frames, the errors English pulls you toward, and exercises with a full answer key.

This pamphlet assumes the particle system in manual chapter 9, the sentence shapes of chapter 10, and tense marking from chapter 14. It is a companion to manual Part V, chapter 20; the complementizers pamphlet covers the frame family that whu belongs to.

Phi paints the portrait first and hangs the nameplate last.