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- adjective grammar Indicating motion away from the deictic center, often the
speaker .
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Examples
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As Aitchison and Rout put it: More mysterious still is the question of how this translocative [nuclear export] pathway was retrofitted onto the ribosome during the evolution of eukaryotes from their protoplasmically unsegregated prokaryotic ancestors.
Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus 2006
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This word is made up of the prefix _ye, _ the sign of the translocative form; _s, _ of the reiterative form (see _Yeshodonnyh_);
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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The cislocative, expressing motion towards the speaker, and the translocative, indicating motion tending from him.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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The prefix _yes, _ in which the signs of the translocative and reiterative forms are combined, gives the sense of
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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