Relative clauses

Relative clauses wirk laek modifiers an say wha or whit is bein spokken aboot:

da lass at waved is spaekkin aboot da parteeclar lass at waved, no ony idder lass.

da stane at fell is spaekkin aboot dat parteeclar stane at fell, no ony idder stane.

Athin Shaetlan dis is don wi da invariant marker at, an hit's a braaly common wye o døin it aroond da wirld. StE, hoosumivver, wirks wi relative pronouns, an whit een gits øsed depeynds apø da animacy o da referent: who(m) is for spaekkin aboot animate bodies, whaaras which spaeks aboot inanimate tings. Dis is braaly rare aroond da wirld, an it onn'y cam aboot braaly laet on atidda English language.

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