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- noun Plural form of
deictic .
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Examples
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Again: Both monosyllabification and the Clipping rule affecting suffixed deictics produce a lengthened vowel in the syllable preceding the deleted schwa.
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While secondary stress would have once donned most instances of the agglutinated deictics *-sa and *-ta in MIE, it wouldn't have naturally done so in unstressed MIE *kʷai-ta *kʷittᵊ PIE *kʷid "what?" yet the inanimate pronominal marker shows voicing nonetheless.
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While secondary stress would have once donned most instances of the agglutinated deictics *-sa and *-ta in MIE, it wouldn't have naturally done so in unstressed MIE *kʷai-ta *kʷittᵊ PIE *kʷid "what?" yet the inanimate pronominal marker shows voicing nonetheless.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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2. Pointing gestures or deictics are also possible in current systems, but are a little harder to perform because they rely partially on the talk for their meaning.
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2. Pointing gestures or deictics are also possible in current systems, but are a little harder to perform because they rely partially on the talk for their meaning.
February 2008 2008
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