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Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses

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The Importance of Passive and Applicatives in Relational Clauses

In both relative and subordinate clauses, you will see remnants of older grammar that's no longer current. And this is often where you get modern subjunctive from. This is something that I made and used in Dothraki relative clauses where the older word order of the language is VSO. It turned into an SBO language due mainly to topicalization and I kind of drag the subject out in front. Remember passives and applicatives because they can be mighty helpful situation.

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