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  2. Old English - Wikipedia

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    Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, [1] was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

  3. Ranko Bugarski - Wikipedia

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    ISBN 978-86-6065-068-1 (bilingual Serbian/Croatian and English volume). His books Jezik i lingvistika (1972) and Jezik u društvu (1986) have won annual prizes, and in 2011 he was awarded the title "Vitez poziva" [Knight of his calling] by the NGO League of Experts-LEX.

  4. Perfect (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    The be-perfect developed similarly, from a construction where the verb meaning be was an ordinary copula and the participle expressed a resultative state of the subject. [16] It is consequently used mostly with verbs that denote a change in the state or location of the subject, and in some languages the participle inflects to agree with the ...

  5. American English - Wikipedia

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    American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, [b] is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States. [4] English is the most widely spoken language in the United States.

  6. List of languages by number of native speakers - Wikipedia

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    The following languages are listed as having at least 50 million first-language speakers in the 27th edition of Ethnologue published in 2024. [7] This section does not include entries that Ethnologue identifies as macrolanguages encompassing all their respective varieties, such as Arabic, Lahnda, Persian, Malay, Pashto, and Chinese.

  7. Gerund - Wikipedia

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    Morphologically they are uninflected (except in Czech), [10] and syntactically they have an adverbial function, and thus generally bear resemblance to Romance gerunds such as those found in Italian, [11] [12] rather than to noun-like gerunds in English [13] or Latin. In Bulgarian, it translates the term деепричастие (deepriʧastije).

  8. Indexed grammar - Wikipedia

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    A production p = (A → X 1 η 1 …X k η k) from P matches a nonterminal A ∈ N followed by its (possibly empty) string of flags ζ ∈ F *. In context, γ Aζ δ, via p, derives to γ X 1 θ 1 …X k θ k δ, where θ i = η i ζ if X i was a nonterminal and the empty word otherwise. The old flags of A are therefore copied to each new ...

  9. Mihailo Stevanović (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    He was born in Stijena Piperska.He was one of the signatories of the Novi Sad agreement on joint Serbo-Croatian language in 1954. He published more than 600 works, including the monumental two-volume Savremeni srpskohrvatski jezik: gramatički sistemi i književnojezička norma ("The modern Serbo-Croatian language: grammatical systems and the literary language norm"; Belgrade, 1964–1969).