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