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<p>Hi Mohammad,</p>
<p>subordinative conjunctions can be enclitic in Latin and certainly
other Indo-European languages. Thus, they do not need to introduce
their clause, but may follow its first constituent.</p>
<p>The way in which Persian <i>ke</i> became an information
structure marker is probably ascertainable by inspecting texts of
earlier stages of the language. In contemporary Portuguese, the
(cognate) subordinator <i>que</i> is a component of the
expression <i>é que</i> (copula subordinator) which (among other
things) follows the focus of a clause.</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/é_que">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/é_que</a></p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Christian Lehmann<br>
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