Relative clauses, <i>the man <b>who I saw</b></i>, are clauses which modify a noun. In some languages relative clauses precede the noun they modify. Japanese is an example, as in <i>uma-ga ketta robai-ga sinda</i> ‘horse-nom kicked mule-nom died’ for ‘the horse that the mule kicked died’ (Ishizuka 2005). 
<br><br><b>Reference</b><br>
Ishizuka, Tomoko. 2005. Processing relative clauses in Japanese. <i>UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics 13</i> (2):135-157.
