Arabic-L:LING:Relative Clause-Prepositional Phrase query

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Date: 15 April 2011
From: om_qaswar om Qaswar <om_qaswar at yahoo.com>
Subject: Relative Clause-Prepositional Phrase query

Dear all,
My Thesis is about Arabic relative clauses. I understand that there is a kind of Arabic relative clauses that describes indefinte nouns; this is called the indefinite relative clauses. It is not considered by tradiditonal Arab linguists as relative clause because it does not have relative marker such as
"fi zyaarat-in lidimashq-a tastaghriq-u usbuu-an"
"on a visit to Damascus (which) lasts for a week" Rayding:324.
My question is whether we would consider the prepositional phrase in the following sentence as the same:
"rait-u rajul-an min ashab al-sultan fii al-souq"
I saw a man (who) from alsultan's friend in the market.
Thank you very much
Zainab

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