Correlative constructions come in various structural guises having their own characteristics. In the example in (1), the first clause has the form of an embedded clause, as is clear from the clause-final placement of the tensed verb. The second clause has the form of a main clause, with the verb directly following the preposed comparative AP. The correlative (also called proportional) complementiser is jee in both cases.

The tensed verb and the subject may be absent in both correlative clauses. To illustrate, consider the following examples:

The second verbless clause is highly idiomatic. Note that the adjective is the same in the paired correlative clauses, whereas in (1) the paired correlative clauses featured different adjectives. Although there is no verb, the understood verb is weze ‘be’ and the understood subject is people in general, as rendered by the impersonal pronoun man ‘one’. The following type of correlative is verbless as well, but now there is a subject present:

Here the paired correlative adjectives are different, in contrast to (2-3) above. The understood verb again is the copula weze ‘be’. The correlative adjectives can also appear in full-fledged clauses, as in the two following exampels:

The verb can also remain absent in just one of the paired clauses, as in the following example:

The second correlative complementiser may also be uumso, which is in all likelihood an interference from German (umso). In fact, presumably the correlative complementiser jee is also a loan from German. The adjectival interrogative wo ‘how’ also functions as correlative complementiser. An example is given below:

A correlative dependency between two clauses can also be expressed with so ‘so’ or sofuul ‘so much’ in the embedded clause and uumso ‘for so’ in the main clause:

Uumso ‘for so’ can also introduce the semantically subordinated clause, with sofuul ‘so much’ introducing the main clause, as in the following subjectless and verbless correlative:

Uumso ‘for so’ can also be used as a correlative modifier for the comparative, used in conjunction with a second clause specifying a circumstance correlating with the clause containing uumso ‘for so’. A first example is given below:

Here the clause containing the correlative applies the more in case the addressees see that the day is almost coming. So there is a correlation between degrees of encouraging and degrees of closeness of the day. Clearly binary is the correlation in the following case:

Here the (inverse) correlation is between two persons and their knowledge (of plant names, as inspection of the context in the Kramer Archive makes clear).

A correlative dependency can also be stated by adding to any type of clause a special type of adverbial clause. An example of such a correlative adverbial clause is given below:

The main clause in dots is built on the designated PP deerätter ‘after it > depending on’, preceded by the universal quantifier and followed by an embedded interrogative construction. A similar construction is illustrated below:

Again the universal quantifier is present, now followed by the equative function word so ‘so’ and the indefinite pronoun wät ‘what, something’.

Comparatives can be modified just as ordinary adjectives. An example is given below:

Furthermore, comparatives may appear in the partitive adjective (PA) construction, as in the example below:

The partitive ending on the comparative adjective is –es, and it has been glossed as PA.