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===Clause types===
===Clause types===
====Relative clauses====
====Relative clauses====
There are no relative pronouns or resumptive pronouns in Roshterian. Only the gap strategy is available, and only a subject of the relative clause can be a head. This is where applicatives come in handy, as applicatives promote oblique arguments to direct objects, thus allow oblique arguments of a verb to used as relative clause heads.
There are no relative pronouns or resumptive pronouns in Roshterian. Only the gap strategy is available, and only a subject or an object of the relative clause can be a head. This is where applicatives come in handy, as applicatives promote oblique arguments to direct objects, thus allow oblique arguments of a verb to used as relative clause heads.


The relative clause is marked by a nominalizing affix ''ped-''.
The relative clause is marked by a nominalizing affix ''ped-''.