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- noun Plural form of
demonstrative .
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Examples
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The word *i = "that" would make a perfect and natural deictic, that could later have been merged onto the demonstratives KA and TA.
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First off, we may wager that pśl is an unstressed type of pronoun because it's spelled without vowels just as postclitic demonstratives are eg. cl 'of this', tś 'to that'.
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There is no instance of a non-quantifying adjective preposed to the noun in Etruscan, whereas quantifying adjectives like numerals may prepose the noun as demonstratives do.
Ipa ama hen 2010
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"The word *i = "that" would make a perfect and natural deictic, that could later have been merged onto the demonstratives KA and TA."
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In Etruscan, there's no question that the relative pronoun is declined for case as are all known pronouns and demonstratives.
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Even so, there's no semantic sense in adding demonstratives in the places you require to make your idea work.
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I've expanded my previously announced pdf to include not only my basic sketch of the Etrusco-Lemnian nominal declension but now also the pronouns and demonstratives as well.
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Nor domost of these afford trulyany free speech with respect to alsodiscussing true revolution and overthrowof those who have become career politicians now rather than representatives at all per the original American revolution althoughtheir methods were even more radicalas the Burr/Hamiilton duel at dawn demonstratives which wasunfortunatelytheir last resort and method.
Here's To 2010 And Return To American Conservatism: Not The British Variety! 2009
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Nor domost of these afford trulyany free speech with respect to alsodiscussing true revolution and overthrowof those who have become career politicians now rather than representatives at all per the original American revolution althoughtheir methods were even more radicalas the Burr/Hamiilton duel at dawn demonstratives which wasunfortunatelytheir last resort and method.
Here's To 2010 And Return To American Conservatism: Not The British Variety! 2009
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I'm not aware of languages developing demonstratives from articles rather than the other way around, although I'd be happy to be informed otherwise.
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