Re: person marking on relative pronouns

René Uittenbogaard wrote:

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>Dutch however:
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>Ik ben het die niet getrouwd is.
>I am.1SG it who not married is.3SG.
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>Apparently "who" refers to "it" here.
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>Ik, die niet getrouwd ben, ga niet mee.
>I, who not married am.1SG, go.1SG not along.
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Formal English these days is more likely to use these solutions, actually.

"I am he who is not married"
"I, who am not married, will not go along"

>It reminded me of a line in a song I heard a while ago:
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>Gott, der Du unser Vater bist, ..
>God.VOC who you.2SG our father are.2SG, ..
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>This excerpt from German has both a relative pronoun and a personal
>pronoun in the subclause. Not an ugly solution at all, IMHO.
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The question is, would Germans generally use that kind of construction?
Not being a native speaker, I couldn't tell you.  The example you give
seems to be something of a mangling of the traditional Lord's Prayer -
"Unser vater, der du bist in Himmel".