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2. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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   First person includes the speaker (English: I, we), second person is the person or people spoken to (English: your or you), and third person includes all that are not listed above (English: he, she, it, they). [1] It also frequently affects verbs, and sometimes nouns or possessive relationships.

3. Dative shift - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, dative shift refers to a pattern in which the subcategorization of a verb can take on two alternating forms, the oblique dative form or the double object construction form. In the oblique dative (OD) form, the verb takes a noun phrase (NP) and a dative prepositional phrase (PP), the second of which is not a core argument .

4. Shifting (syntax) - Wikipedia

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   These examples again illustrate shifting that is motivated by the relative weight of the constituents involved. The heavier of the two constituents prefers to appear further to the right. The example sentences above all have the shifted constituents appearing after their head (see below). Constituents that precede their head can also shift, e.g.

5. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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   Question mark: Inverted question mark, Interrobang “ ” " " ‘ ’ ' ' Quotation marks: Apostrophe, Ditto, Guillemets, Prime: Inch, Second ® Registered trademark symbol: Trademark symbol ※ Reference mark: Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign

6. Grammatical category - Wikipedia

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   An example of this is the Latin cases, which are all suffixal: rosa, rosae, rosae, rosam, rosa, rosā ("rose", in the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, vocative and ablative). Categories can also pertain to sentence constituents that are larger than a single word (phrases, or sometimes clauses).

7. Syntactic change - Wikipedia

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   The reanalyzed grammar may create new ambiguities, which subsequent generations may analyze in another manner. In some cases, change can happen in a cyclic manner. For example, prepositions can become reduced over time until they are reanalyzed as case markers affixed onto the adjacent nouns. The case markers, in turn, may be lost over time ...