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For relative clauses whose heads are prepositional objects in the relative clause, there are two strategies like in English: | For relative clauses whose heads are prepositional objects in the relative clause, there are two strategies like in English: | ||
* | *In informal Togarmite, the relativizer ''xi'' is treated as a resumptive pronoun which takes the preposition, like English preposition + ''which''. This syntax arose from the influence of surrounding languages like English. | ||
* | *In formal Togarmite, the preposition goes to the end of the clause. This syntax arose from the native Semitic construction with the resumptive pronoun at the end, via the loss of unstressed pronominal suffixes of the preposition. | ||
==Derivation== | ==Derivation== | ||