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I can certainly see why the screenplay attracted such a-grade talent over the years.
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Huge tankers of chocolate leaving from Moreton Bay loaded to the gills with a-grade crude milk chocolate.
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Additionally, the reduplicated a-grade might still have avoided crystallizing into a formal perfective as long as non-reduplicated forms of active verbs still had a function within this system.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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In other words, the reduplicated a-grade would both stress an action rather than state as well as its eventual endpoint.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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I will suggest briefly that perhaps there was originally a simple two-fold distinction between 'non-completed' actions in e-grade and 'completed' actions in a-grade later o-grade due to Vowel Shift at the end of the Late IE period.
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Additionally, the reduplicated a-grade might still have avoided crystallizing into a formal perfective as long as non-reduplicated forms of active verbs still had a function within this system.
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I will suggest briefly that perhaps there was originally a simple two-fold distinction between 'non-completed' actions in e-grade and 'completed' actions in a-grade later o-grade due to Vowel Shift at the end of the Late IE period.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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In other words, the reduplicated a-grade would both stress an action rather than state as well as its eventual endpoint.
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Notice that in my system, all verbs began to ablaut because of vowel harmony and eventually the a-grade later becoming o-grade would become productive as a signal of stativeness.
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Lucky a-grade sister is playing for us tonight. derecshuler Walking around Wash Park, my fav park in Denver.
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