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  2. Agreement (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    ka tama-ŋɔ river-prox. in- ka this ka tama- ā -ŋɔ river-pl-prox. in- ka - ā these ka tama-ŋɔ in- ka / ka tama- ā -ŋɔ in- ka - ā river-prox. this / river-pl-prox. these In this example, what is copied is not a prefix, but rather the initial syllable of the head "river". By language Languages can have no conventional agreement whatsoever, as in Japanese or Malay ; barely any, as in ...

  3. Double negative - Wikipedia

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    Robert Lowth stated in his grammar textbook A Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762) that "two negatives in English destroy one another, or are equivalent to an affirmative". [19] Grammarians have assumed that Latin was the model for Lowth and other early grammarians in prescribing against negative concord, as Latin does not feature it.

  4. Sotho concords - Wikipedia

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    The nasal permutation caused by the class 8 adjectival concord is probably due to false analogy with the class 10 forms (in isiXhosa, for example, the class 8 concord does not cause nasal permutation). Being formed from the relative concord followed by the class prefix, they therefore have the tonal pattern [¯ _ ].

  5. Sesotho grammar - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the word [kʼɪ'ɑliˌdumedisɑ] Ke•a•le•dumedisa ('I•greet•you[pl]') the stem is the verb stem [dumɛlɑ]-dumel(a) ('agree') surrounded by the subjectival concord [kʼɪ] ke-(first person singular), the present definite positive indicative infix marker [ɑ]-a-, the objectival concord [lɪ]-le-(third person plural ...

  6. Synesis - Wikipedia

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    It is effectively an agreement of words with the sense, instead of the morphosyntactic form, a type of form-meaning mismatch. [1] Examples: One hundred dollars is the cost of rent. If the band are popular, they will play next month. Here, the plural pronoun they and the plural verb form are co-refer with the singular noun band.

  7. Sotho parts of speech - Wikipedia

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    Contrast the last example with [bɑtʰʊbɑbɑhʊlʊ] batho ba baholo [_ _ ! ¯ _ ¯ _ ] ('the large people'), where the relative concord has an irregular extra-high tone and does not raise the second low tone ba, and there is a downstep between the two words which is not heard in the copulative. In the case of relatives, the subjectival ...

  8. Sotho verbs - Wikipedia

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    In isiZulu the forms are very predictable, with suffixes of the form aCa generally changing to eCe (aCa + ile ⇒; aiCe ⇒; eCe). ^ The fact that this is indeed the simple copulative (and not just a prefix that happens to be allomorphic with it) is evidenced by looking at these verbs in a language such as isiZulu where the simple copulative is much more complicated and yet coincides perfectly ...

  9. English usage controversies - Wikipedia

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    English is spoken worldwide, and the Standard Written English grammar generally taught in schools around the world will vary only slightly. Nonetheless, disputes can sometimes arise: for example, it is a matter of some debate in India whether British, American, or Indian English is the best form to use. [29] [30] [failed verification]

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