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  • 51Personal pronoun — ExamplesSidebar|35% *He shook her hand. *Why do you always rely on me to do your homework for you? *They tried to run away from the hunter, but he set his dogs after them.Personal pronouns are pronouns used as substitutes for proper or common… …

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  • 52Degree of comparison — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality …

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  • 53Mirative — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality Focus …

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  • 54Mixe-Zoque languages — Infobox Language family name=Mixe Zoque altname=Mije Soke region= Mesoamerica: Mexico Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz familycolor=American family= Mixe Zoque. Although some proposals have linked Mixe Zoquean with other families, none of these… …

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  • 55Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time — [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrT xNaDkgQC printsec=frontcover Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time] (University of Chicago Press, 1992) is linguist Johanna Nichols s best known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology as a tool for… …

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  • 56Implicational hierarchy — is a chain of implicational universals.A set of chained universals is schematically shown as in (1):(1) A > B > C > DIt can be reformulated in the following way: If a language has property D, then it also has properties A, B, and C; if a language …

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  • 57Pipil language — Pipil Nawat (náhuat) Spoken in El Salvador (Sonsonate, Ahuachapan, La Libertad, San Salvador) Ethnicity Pipils Native speakers 3,000 …

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  • 58Japanese possessives — Verbal Possessives hoyuusuru and motsuShoyuu (所有) is a Japanese noun of Sino Japanese origin. It translates as ‘the state of possession’ or ‘ownership’. In Japanese, nouns, mainly those of Chinese origin, may attached themselves to the verb suru… …

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  • 59Animate (disambiguation) — Animate means that which lives or moves, as opposed to inanimate, that which doesn t live or move. It may refer to:* Animate, a Japanese retail chain * Animate , a song by Rush from their 1993 album Counterparts * Animation, an optical illusion… …

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  • 60Clusivity — Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness Degree of comparison Evidentiality …

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