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... noun is evident from the suffix it bears encoding number ( and obviation , on animate nouns ) : ( 1 ) Noun suffixes animate inanimate singular plural singular plural proximate -a -aki -i -ani obviative -ani -ahi In the examples given ...
... noun is evident from the suffix it bears encoding number ( and obviation , on animate nouns ) : ( 1 ) Noun suffixes animate inanimate singular plural singular plural proximate -a -aki -i -ani obviative -ani -ahi In the examples given ...
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... noun stem aseny- ' stone ' is ordinarily inanimate , but in some contexts describing speech directed to a stone the gender of the noun is shifted to animate . The following sentence , for example , is taken from a text in which a man is ...
... noun stem aseny- ' stone ' is ordinarily inanimate , but in some contexts describing speech directed to a stone the gender of the noun is shifted to animate . The following sentence , for example , is taken from a text in which a man is ...
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... nouns in final position become fairly accurate indicators of proximate shifts : postverbal noun phrases are either shifting into focus ( the case of brand - new noun phrases ) or out of focus ( the case of defocusing constructions ) ...
... nouns in final position become fairly accurate indicators of proximate shifts : postverbal noun phrases are either shifting into focus ( the case of brand - new noun phrases ) or out of focus ( the case of defocusing constructions ) ...
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ELAINE AYOUNGMANCLIFTON | 15 |
BLAIN 22 | 22 |
JANET ELIZABETH CHUTE | 35 |
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