
Information Structure with Aidan Aannestad
Conlangery Podcast
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The Role of Relative Markers in Morphology
A lot of morphological focus markers are related to relative markers. So your relativizer becomes a focus marker because people are doing this weird thing with it. With some reanalysis of this bi-clausal cleft construction as monocleusal actually, then suddenly you have sentence level marking on your verb that's derived from a relativizer or something.
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