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First , verbalization of nouns involves this AF even though the meaning process does not seem very salient : possessed nouns add AF alone , e.g. , o - mõhkomān / i = w ' he has a knife ' , and any noun can take CF -iw- ' be or be ...
First , verbalization of nouns involves this AF even though the meaning process does not seem very salient : possessed nouns add AF alone , e.g. , o - mõhkomān / i = w ' he has a knife ' , and any noun can take CF -iw- ' be or be ...
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Ambiguity then entails two or more competing meanings , and in course of time these conflicts of meaning may lead to the elimination or extinction of all but one of the originally competing meanings in the language .
Ambiguity then entails two or more competing meanings , and in course of time these conflicts of meaning may lead to the elimination or extinction of all but one of the originally competing meanings in the language .
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Such meaning , he observed , " is accessible only to a relatively small and often very small minority of contemporaries [ which was the case for the birch bark scrolls ] and to the scholar who carefully scrutinizes the past and builds ...
Such meaning , he observed , " is accessible only to a relatively small and often very small minority of contemporaries [ which was the case for the birch bark scrolls ] and to the scholar who carefully scrutinizes the past and builds ...
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