Standardizing relativization in Dinka (and other languages?)

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

On 12/11/2011 3:33 PM, john at research.haifa.ac.il wrote:
> That's right, Mike. There are things which are like relative clauses, but
> they're really inefficient in terms of reading because either they look
> like main clauses (until you get to the end and realize that you've misparsed
> it) or else are headed by markers which have a really wide variety of other
> functions (which also leads to misparsing).
>

     Well, okay, but they're not that inefficient in terms of speech, 
right?  It's not like Dinka speakers are constantly misunderstanding 
each other because they thought that a relative clause was a main 
clause.  How do they know?

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