On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:47 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree. The original sentence {jeSlaH ghoj neHbogh nuvpu'} seemed
weird to me too, with my original confusion being whether the {nuvpu'}
could be the subject of the {jeSlaH}, since it was so far away from
it.

Why not? It wouldn't be any further away from the verb than it would be in a more usual relative clause that didn't have a sentence as object, like {jeSlaH yuch neHbogh nuvpu'} "The people who want chocolate can participate."

The sense of distance comes, not from the number of words, but from the fact that you've got a sentence-as-object inside a relative clause before  you ever get to the subject of the original verb. That's a lot of grammar to parse mentally before you find out what it is you're even talking about.

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