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  2. Postpositive adjective - Wikipedia

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    For example, because martial is a postpositive adjective in the phrase court-martial, the plural is courts-martial, the suffix being attached to the noun rather than the adjective. This pattern holds for most postpositive adjectives, with the few exceptions reflecting overriding linguistic processes such as rebracketing.

  3. Post-positive adjective - Wikipedia

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Postpositive adjective; From a page move ...

  4. Vietnamese grammar - Wikipedia

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    In contrast, verbs/adjectives do not co-occur with the copula. Mai cao. "Mai is tall." The adjective cao (as in the sentence above) does not require a preceding copula, and thus the sentence *Mai là cao is ill-formed. The noun category can be further subdivided into different noun classes according to semantic and syntactic criteria.

  5. Postpositive - Wikipedia

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    Postpositive may mean: in philosophy, related to postpositivism , a development of positivism in grammar, following a related word or phrase, as with a postpositive adjective

  6. English adjectives - Wikipedia

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    Such adjective phrases can be integrated into the clause (e.g., Love dies young) or detached from the clause as a supplement (e.g., Happy to see her, I wept). Adjective phrases functioning as predicative adjuncts are typically interpreted with the subject of the main clause being the predicand of the adjunct (i.e., "I was happy to see her"). [11]

  7. Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...

  8. Vietnamese language - Wikipedia

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    Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]

  9. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.