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Applicative Formation may be employed if the argument being relativized is in an oblique argument. In the following example, ''kua'' is semantically an oblique Comitative argument. To make it agree with its antecedent ''redad'', it must be promoted to the Absolutive argument. This is done by adding the Applicative marker ''-ngar-'' to the semantically intransitive verb ''-kna-'', thereby increasing the valency of the matrix clause:

Applicative Formation may be employed if the argument being relativized is in an oblique argument in the matrix clause. In the following example, ''kua'' is semantically an oblique Comitative argument. To make it agree with its antecedent ''redad'', it must be promoted to the Absolutive argument. This is done by adding the Applicative marker ''-ngar-'' to the semantically intransitive verb ''-kna-'', thereby increasing the valency of the matrix clause:

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| translation = Annu went with the man who ate salmon.

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Note that Noun Incorporation was also employed in the relative clause in the previous example. Antipassivation, Applicative Formation, and Noun Incorporation, all of which alter the valency and argument structure of a clause, may be employed in either the relative clause or the matrix clause, or both clauses as necessary to ensure that the antecedent and its co-referent proform are both Absolutive arguments.

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-Applicative Formation may be employed if the argument being relativized is in an oblique argument.  In the following example, ''kua'' is semantically an oblique Comitative argument.  To make it agree with its antecedent ''redad'', it must be promoted to the Absolutive argument.  This is done by adding the Applicative marker ''-ngar-'' to the semantically intransitive verb ''-kna-'', thereby increasing the valency of the matrix clause:
+Applicative Formation may be employed if the argument being relativized is in an oblique argument in the matrix clause.  In the following example, ''kua'' is semantically an oblique Comitative argument.  To make it agree with its antecedent ''redad'', it must be promoted to the Absolutive argument.  This is done by adding the Applicative marker ''-ngar-'' to the semantically intransitive verb ''-kna-'', thereby increasing the valency of the matrix clause:
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+Note that Noun Incorporation was also employed in the relative clause in the previous example.  Antipassivation, Applicative Formation, and Noun Incorporation, all of which alter the valency and argument structure of a clause, may be employed in either the relative clause or the matrix clause, or both clauses as necessary to ensure that the antecedent and its co-referent proform are both Absolutive arguments.
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