Category:Nominal Syntax
Feature:Genitives, Adjectives and Relative Clauses WALS
Name:Genitives and relative clauses collapsed
Languages (20):
Conlangs (19):
Qþyn|gài
Waku
Proto-Frinthan

In a relative clause, the verb is declined as a genitive noun. Examples:

Ŕiyainuw i rombom sih - PL.plate ACC stack.PST man.NOM - "The man stacked plates."

ŕiyainuw i (gō) rombe k sih - PL.plate ACC (already) stack GEN man.NOM - "the man who stack(ed) plates"

sih (gō) rombe k ŕiyainuh - man.NOM (already) stack GEN PL.plate.NOM - "the plates the man stack(ed)"

Nahakhontl
Netagin The genitive of the action noun of the verb is used in relative clauses:

Ha-fháráś le-ˀáthái ndassíláth?
TOP=silver.SG.DIR RECENT_PAST=1PL.GEN earn/AXN-GEN
What of the money we've been earning [of past-our earning]?
Lanbuvia
Temporary1
Patuximis
Kagian
Istokahi
Menxháo
Ghudaz
Least Average
Salhari
Varta Avina
Rusnis
the I-Picked-Some-Random-Features-With-a-Die Language)
Sibirgo
Latejami

Natlangs (1):
Burmese