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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, | *in formal writing, to eliminate ambiguity ''mes'' 'this' may be used as a resumptive pronoun or the head noun may be repeated. | ||
*for relativizing sentences or statements, the relativizer ''taw'' 'what' is used | *for relativizing sentences or statements, the relativizer ''taw'' 'what' is used | ||
:'''''... taw þwmoñéed emb þur na tyþ, ñi þyñém.''''' | :'''''... taw þwmoñéed emb þur na tyþ, ñi þyñém.''''' | ||