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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. Sotho concords - Wikipedia

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    The subjectival concords concord with the subject of a verb. They are placed near the beginning of the verbal complex, before any possible infixes [4] verbal auxiliaries and the objectival concord, but after any "pre-initial" morphemes. In a multi-verbal conjugation they appear before every deficient verb (with the exception of contractions) as ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Sotho parts of speech - Wikipedia

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    The verb -re when used with ideophones may take a direct object (indicated by an objectival concord). It is this verb which carries all forms of inflexion on behalf of the ideophone. Its mood, transitivity, tense, objects, aspect, etc. are all reflected in the verb -re, while the ideophone itself does not in any way change. [hʊmʊʀɪmu] ho mo ...

  6. American and British English grammatical differences

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    In British English (BrE), collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

  7. Subject–verb–object word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis).

  8. Morphosyntactic alignment - Wikipedia

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    English has a subject, which merges the more active argument of transitive verbs with the argument of intransitive verbs, leaving the object distinct; other languages may have different strategies, or, rarely, make no distinction at all. Distinctions may be made morphologically (through case and agreement), syntactically (through word order ...

  9. Word order - Wikipedia

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    These are all possible word orders for the subject, object, and verb in the order of most common to rarest (the examples use "she" as the subject, "loves" as the verb, and "him" as the object): SOV is the order used by the largest number of distinct languages; languages using it include Japanese , Korean , Mongolian , Turkish , the Indo-Aryan ...

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