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This proposal isn't perfect. In particular, relative content clauses are subject to some of the same ambiguity as relative clauses: | This proposal isn't perfect. In particular, relative content clauses are subject to some of the same ambiguity as relative clauses: | ||
{{Example|Póq po kúe, ꝡë zao súq hóa}}{{Example|Júna po sío, ꝡä hao ráı}} | {{Example|Póq po kúe, ꝡë zao súq hóa}}{{Example|Júna po sío, ꝡä hao ráı}} | ||
These clauses could conceivably attach to either the DP outside the predicatizer, or the DP inside the predicatizer. Fundamentally, predicatizers and object incorporation both create verb forms in which multiple 𝘯Ps "pile up" at the right edge, which makes adjunction to 𝘯Ps | These clauses could conceivably attach to either the DP outside the predicatizer, or the DP inside the predicatizer. Fundamentally, predicatizers and object incorporation both create verb forms in which multiple 𝘯Ps "pile up" at the right edge, which makes adjunction to 𝘯Ps ambiguous. | ||
But relative content clauses also create a new case of ambiguity: | But relative content clauses also create a new case of ambiguity: | ||