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Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses

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How to Relatize Subjects and Indirect Objects

You'll never find a language that relativizes subjects and indirect objects but not direct objects. I'm not aware of any language that breaks it. None come to mind. It would just seem silly for a language not to do it. Like I mean I just can't conceive of a type of language that we're like the marking for direct indirect objects would be so simple compared to direct objects. That's that's another framework. Yeah it is and it doesn't alwaysIt doesn't always pan out but this one I'm not sure if there will ever be an answer as to why people don't change their minds about how they want to write languages.

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