A nice recent article by Katherine Hodgson uses Armenian data to show what I have formulated for myself after years of working on participles: in relativization, it is often not syntax that matters but recoverability – in short, speakers say what listeners will likely understand: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0035/html #linguistics #typology #syntax #relativeclauses #relativization #armenian

How to build longer #German #sentences | Super #EasyGerman 214

"This is an episode that we hope will help you! That's right, this is about #RelativeClauses. These are #SubordinateClauses that you can use to describe a noun in more detail. Actually, they are not that complicated, but the cases in German (nominative, accusative...) play an important role here. So that you don't get confused, Cari will explain to you today how to form correct relative clauses."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XchW3E0kTPk