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*For comparison of adverbs, again the auxiliary verb corresponding to the adverb is used with either the transgressive or the verbal noun of the lexical verb. The auxiliary can take applicatives and direct objects: ''the only student I can jump higher than'' = "the only student REL him-APPL-do_better-1SG jump.TRGR" (pseudogloss)
*For comparison of adverbs, again the auxiliary verb corresponding to the adverb is used with either the transgressive or the verbal noun of the lexical verb. The auxiliary can take applicatives and direct objects: ''the only student I can jump higher than'' = "the only student REL him-APPL-do_better-1SG jump.TRGR" (pseudogloss)


"such that" + resumptive pronoun construction is always available in formal or post-classical Netagin, but it sounds very bookish, even to modern speakers. Gap and internally headed relative clauses are restricted to poetry.
The "such that" + resumptive pronoun construction is always available in post-classical literary Netagin (Modern Netagin vernaculars use resumptive pronouns for positions lower in the relativization hierarchy). Gap and internally headed relative clauses are restricted to poetry.


===Complement clauses===
===Complement clauses===