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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. Code-switching - Wikipedia

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    The other types involve utterances that simply follow the grammar of one language or the other. Intra-sentential switching can be alternational or insertional. In alternational code-switching, a new grammar emerges that is a combination of the grammars of the two languages involved.

  4. Grammaticalization - Wikipedia

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    Grammaticalization is a metaphorical shift toward the abstract, "metaphor" being defined as an originally conscious or voluntary shift in a word's meaning because of some perceived similarity. [ 37 ] Elizabeth Traugott & Bernd Heine (1991): Together, they edited a two-volume collection of papers from a 1988 conference organized by Talmy Givón ...

  5. Grammaticality - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, grammaticality is determined by the conformity to language usage as derived by the grammar of a particular speech variety. The notion of grammaticality rose alongside the theory of generative grammar, the goal of which is to formulate rules that define well-formed, grammatical sentences. These rules of grammaticality also ...

  6. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...

  7. Grammatical mood - Wikipedia

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    e IPFV. TAM hina’aro like na DEIX vau SG tō DEF mei’a banana ra DEIX e hina’aro na vau tō mei’a ra IPFV.TAM like DEIX SG DEF banana DEIX 'I would like those bananas (you mentioned).' Mortlockese Mortlockese is an Austronesian language made up of eleven dialects over the eleven atolls that make up the Mortlock Islands in Micronesia. Various TAM markers are used in the language. Mood ...

  8. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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    11 With the Singular they 3rd person pronoun. 12 Bengali verbs are further conjugated according to formality. There are three verb forms for 2nd person pronouns: হও (hôo, familiar), হোস (hoś, very familiar) and হন (hôn, polite). Also two forms for 3rd person pronouns: হয় (hôy, familiar) and হন (hôn, polite). Plural ...

  9. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    The inclusive form is derived from the second-person pronoun and the first-person pronoun. The exclusive form is derived from the first-person singular and the third-person plural. There are significant dialectal and diachronic variations in the exclusive form. English creole: Lakota: uŋ(k)- uŋ(k)- ... -pi Neither The inclusive form has a ...