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Conlangery #72: Relative Clauses

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How to Relativize a Subject in English

English is kind of weird in that we can relativize basically anything. Up to and including the objects of prepositions, which is kind of odd. Kamakawi can only relativize off of a subject. Uh, that's it. It can't even do a direct object. And so what you have to do then is to relativized off a directobject. You use a passive. In other words, if you wanted to say like, uh, the, the grass I saw the woman on what you would say would be. Yeah.

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