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Dear Maria,<br>
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first of all, let me confirm that I have never seen reduplication or
aspect conjugation functioning as markers of a relative clause. From
a theoretical point of view, this is even hard to conceive since the
same reduplication or aspect marking also occurs outside relative
clauses. So you would need an additional condition under which it
functions as relative-clause marking.<br>
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My suggestion would be to pursue alternative hypotheses. In your
example, it is, on the one hand, not at all obvious that the
reduplication signals any aspect at all. On the other, reduplication
may have the function of intensification or emphasis, which it has
in many languages. It would also seem possible that emphasis is
frequent in relative clauses, depending on how relative clauses are
used in Modole.<br>
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On the other hand, it should be clear that there are, in the world,
relative clauses which lack any special marking whatsoever. So it is
not the case that you need to discover/identify such marking in
Modole.<br>
<br>
Best, Christian Lehmann
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