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Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses

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The Importance of Internal Heading in Swahili

There's an introduced internally headed relative clause like in Tibetan or Navajo, it says, I saw the man yesterday went home. And then there's another, uh, in the matrix clause and it's internally head because there's, you know, I guess the matrix clause head is inside of the embedded clause. Does it happen to mention how it, um, at least on the, on the page that you're looking at, does it say how you know which one is the head? Is there a marker on the man of some kind? Yeah, that's, that seems a little tricky, especially if you have, if you allow, um, different things to be relativized,.

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