... its form excludes the possibility of it being nominative, then the relative pronoun may be taken to be the subject of the clause. This ap- plies to about half of all the instances where the ... preference be- ing given to the formally distinct denen. The presence of a preposition, on the other hand, does not solve the problem as before, unless the preposition is of the type which can be ... a subordinate clause the verb must normally come at the end. How, then, are we to deter- mine the function of the relative pronoun in those instances where the form of the relative provides...