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111Imperfective aspect — The imperfective (abbreviated ipfv or more ambiguously impv) is a grammatical aspect used to describe a situation viewed with internal structure, such as ongoing, habitual, repeated, and similar semantic roles, whether that situation occurs in… …
112Lithuanian grammar — is the study of rules governing the use of the Lithuanian language. Lithuanian grammar retains many archaic features from Proto Indo European that have been lost in other Indo European languages. It has extremely complex morphology; words have… …
113Deponent verb — In linguistics, a deponent verb is a verb that is active in meaning but takes its form from a different voice, most commonly the middle or passive. A deponent verb doesn t have active forms; it can be said to have deposited them (into oblivion).… …
114Neo-Mandaic — Mandāyí, Raṭnā Pronunciation [mændɔːˈji], [rætˤnɔ] Spoken in Iran, Iraq (extinct) Native speakers ca. 500 …
115Italian grammar — is the study of grammar of the Italian language.MorphologyItalian words can be divided into nine grammatical categories, the parts of speech: five variable (article, noun, adjective, pronoun and verb) and four invariable (adverb, preposition,… …
116Classifier (linguistics) — A classifier, in linguistics, sometimes called a measure word, is a word or morpheme used in some languages to classify the referent of a countable noun according to its meaning. In languages that have classifiers, they are often used when the… …
117Modal verb — A modal verb (also modal, modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary) is a type of auxiliary verb that is used to indicate modality that is, likelihood, ability, permission, and obligation.[1]:p.33 The use of auxiliary verbs to express modality is… …
118Reflexive pronoun — Herself redirects here. For the toy elf, see Herself the Elf. Himself redirects here. For other uses, see Himself (disambiguation). Oneself redirects here. For the hip hop artist, see Oneself (artist). Ourselves redirects here. For the 1988 punk… …
119Dummy pronoun — A dummy pronoun (formally: expletive pronoun or pleonastic pronoun) is a type of pronoun used in non pro drop languages, such as English. It is used when a particular verb argument (or preposition) is nonexistent (it could also be unknown,… …
120Converb — In theoretical linguistics, a converb is a non finite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination, i.e. notions like when , because , after , while . Converbs are differentiated from coverbs, which are verbs in complex predicates in… …
