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  2. Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of India - Wikipedia

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    The Fifth Schedule of the Constitution of India gives special powers to the Governor to provide autonomy to the Scheduled Tribes, thereby limiting the effect of Acts of the Central and State Legislatures on the Scheduled Areas. [1] [2] [3]

  3. Scheduled Areas - Wikipedia

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    The Sixth Schedule protects tribal interests in Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. [6] In the Sixth Schedule areas, the emphasis is on self-rule; tribal communities are granted considerable autonomy, including powers to make laws and receive central government funds for social and infrastructure development. To enable local control, the ...

  4. Form-meaning mismatch - Wikipedia

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    In the case of object raising, the object of one verb can be the agent of another verb. For example, in we expect JJ to arrive at 2:00, JJ is the object of expect, but JJ is also the person who will be doing the arriving. [6] [p. 221] Similarly, in Japanese, the potential form of verbs can raise the object of the main verb to the subject ...

  5. Dative shift - Wikipedia

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    Variants of this approach include Jackendoff's (1990), [14] in which he provides different analyses for verbs with different types of meaning (e.g. “give” and “sellvs “throw” and “kick” shown in the table below). This approach, also taken by Hovav and Levin (2008), is known as the Verb-Sensitive Approach.

  6. Grammatical conjugation - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, conjugation (/ ˌ k ɒ n dʒ ʊ ˈ ɡ eɪ ʃ ən / [1] [2]) is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (alteration of form according to rules of grammar). For instance, the verb break can be conjugated to form the words break, breaks, and broke.

  7. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    The irregular form tends to indicate duration, whereas the regular form often describes a short-term action (The fire burned for weeks. vs. He burnt his finger.), and in American English, the regular form is associated with the literal sense of a verb, while the irregular form with a figurative one.

  8. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    The base form or plain form of an English verb is not marked by any inflectional ending.. Certain derivational suffixes are frequently used to form verbs, such as -en (sharpen), -ate (formulate), -fy (electrify), and -ise/ize (realise/realize), but verbs with those suffixes are nonetheless considered to be base-form verbs.

  9. Verbnoun - Wikipedia

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    It is often formed by the addition of a suffix to a verb stem, though its form is sometimes the same as that of the verb stem. [2] For example, in the Manx language, "etl" is the verb stem (and imperative singular, as is usually the case in Celtic languages) corresponding to the English verb "fly". The verbnoun is formed by the addition of the ...