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**This state of affairs came about because the older resumptive pronominal affixes on prepositions elided and the emphatic pronoun remained optional. | **This state of affairs came about because the older resumptive pronominal affixes on prepositions elided and the emphatic pronoun remained optional. | ||
*for places, ''cah'' 'there' can be used as a resumptive pronoun | *for places, ''cah'' 'there' can be used as a resumptive pronoun | ||
*in formal writing, the head may be repeated instead of using a resumptive pronoun to eliminate ambiguity (cf. mathematical | *in formal writing, the head may be repeated instead of using a resumptive pronoun to eliminate ambiguity (cf. mathematical writing) | ||
*For relativizing sentences or statements, ''taw'' 'what' is used | *For relativizing sentences or statements, ''taw'' 'what' is used | ||
:'''''... taw þuþmoŋéed emb vyðár tyþ.''''' | :'''''... taw þuþmoŋéed emb vyðár tyþ.''''' | ||