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  2. Ojibwe grammar - Wikipedia

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    3 - bizindaw listen.to -aa - DIRECT -n - 3OBVIATIVE o- bizindaw -aa -n 3- listen.to -DIRECT -3OBVIATIVE "He listens to the other one." An inverse suffix indicates that the action is performed by someone lower on the person hierarchy on someone higher on the person hierarchy (e.g., by the speaker on the addressee, or by an obviative third person on a proximate): obizindaagoon o- 3 - bizindaw ...

  3. Inuit grammar - Wikipedia

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    -junga: indicative first-person singular (itself composed of the indicative morpheme -ju-and the first person marker -nga) Note the consonant sandhi (see Inuit phonology ): The /q/ from -tsiaq- followed by the /j/ from -junnaq- becomes ‹r› [ʁ] , a single consonant taking its point of articulation from /q/ and its manner of articulation ...

  4. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    they are (third-person plural, and third-person singular) Other verbs in English take the suffix -s to mark the present tense third person singular, excluding singular 'they'. In many languages, such as French , the verb in any given tense takes a different suffix for any of the various combinations of person and number of the subject.

  5. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    To mark number, English has different singular and plural forms for nouns and verbs (in the third person): "my dog watches television" (singular) and "my dogs watch television" (plural). [7] This is not universal: Wambaya marks number on nouns but not verbs, [ 8 ] and Onondaga marks number on verbs but not nouns. [ 9 ]

  6. Interlinear gloss - Wikipedia

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    The queries comprised terms relevant to linguistic research such as grammatical morphemes (e.g., "NOM", short for nominative; "3SG", short for 3rd person singular). Second, each line in an extracted document was tagged for whether it was a line belonging to an interlinear gloss or not using sequence-labeling methods from Machine Learning.

  7. A guide to neopronouns, from ae to ze - AOL

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    But the neopronoun “thon”did make it into the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 1934, defined as “a proposed genderless pronoun of the third person.” Baron wrote that the composer and lawyer ...

  8. Leipzig–Jakarta list - Wikipedia

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    The word list is named after the cities of Leipzig, Germany, and Jakarta, Indonesia, the places where the list was conceived and created. In the 1950s, the linguist Morris Swadesh published a list of 200 words called the Swadesh list, allegedly the 200 lexical concepts found in all languages that were least likely to be borrowed from other ...

  9. Indo-European copula - Wikipedia

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    However, as it is said, the 3rd person singular has no ending in the case of hastan. That is to say that the existential hast (exists), which is like the alter-ego of the copula ast (is), takes no ending, while the present stem of all other verbs take an archaic ending - ad in their 3rd person singular.