Language-family Sentence Examples

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  • Like modern German which comes from the same Germanic language family Old English is highly inflected.

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  • It is shown that in this language family derived voice, i.e. passivization, in fact functions in the domain of discourse pragmatics.

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  • It is classified within the Northern Branch of the West Atlantic subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family.

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