curprev12:5512:55, 4 October 2020 Samaloutalkcontribs 3,071 bytes−104 Removed incorrect claim about Pirahã. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/431525 .: "Pirahã has two tenselike morphemes, -a ‘remote’ and -i ‘proximate’."undo
curprev14:0114:01, 8 June 2020 Roger.M.Williamstalkcontribs 3,171 bytes+205 Distinguishing the linguistic phenomenon of unmarked juxtaposition, which is found in many dialects of Arabic, from the marked genitive constructions of the literary form of the language languageundo
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curprev04:4404:44, 24 February 2020 2604:3d09:e183:4900:d72:6a1f:f92f:503atalk 2,966 bytes−188 This claim requires a source. Beyond that, Vietnamese is a language with possessive nouns compounding. For example, to say 'the cat's hat', one literally says 'hat [animal classifier] cat'. This phrase is ambiguous in the same way 'cat hat' is in English: it could be a hat shaped like a cat, made of cat's, etc.undoTags: Mobile editMobile web edit