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:'I live in a city.' | :'I live in a city.' | ||
Applicatives are not only useful for emphasizing or topicalizing the oblique argument but in fact are necessary for certain syntactic constructions (and sounding natural). When an applicative is used, the original direct object (when used) takes the instrumental preposition ''nai''. | Applicatives are not only useful for emphasizing or topicalizing the oblique argument but in fact are necessary for certain syntactic constructions (and for just sounding natural). When an applicative is used, the original direct object (when used) takes the instrumental preposition ''nai''. | ||
===Relative clauses=== | ===Relative clauses=== | ||