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**This came about because the older resumptive pronominal affixes on prepositions elided and the emphatic pronoun remained optional. | **This came about because the older resumptive pronominal affixes on prepositions elided and the emphatic pronoun remained optional. | ||
**when oblique, the resumptive pronoun may replace the relativizer, as in Modern Hebrew | **when oblique, the resumptive pronoun may replace the relativizer, as in Modern Hebrew | ||
*for places, ''cah'' 'there' can be used as a resumptive pronoun | :'''''Mes na dlïah yryñéel ry twm go orr awb sovl ber (awr)!''''' (also '''''...ber awr twm go orr awb sovl''''') | ||
:this_PRON SPEC.PL event terrible REL NEG IPFV should 1EX hear about (3PL) | |||
:''These are terrible events that we should not have heard of!'' | |||
*for places and locations, ''cah'' 'there' can be used as a resumptive pronoun | |||
*in formal writing, to eliminate ambiguity ''mes'' 'this' may be used as a resumptive pronoun | *in formal writing, to eliminate ambiguity ''mes'' 'this' may be used as a resumptive pronoun | ||
*for relativizing sentences or statements, the relativizer ''taw'' 'what' is used | *for relativizing sentences or statements, the relativizer ''taw'' 'what' is used | ||
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:what confirm COMP equal SPEC.PL two as desire | :what confirm COMP equal SPEC.PL two as desire | ||
:''...which confirms that the two are equal, as desired.'' | :''...which confirms that the two are equal, as desired.'' | ||
*Non-restrictive relative clauses (more precisely, those relative clauses that ''cannot'' be restrictive) are indicated by simple | *Non-restrictive relative clauses (more precisely, those relative clauses that ''cannot'' be restrictive) are indicated by simple appositi | ||
===Complement clauses=== | ===Complement clauses=== | ||