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Re: polysynthetic languages

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 23:02
At 03:51 PM 9/23/03 -0500, you wrote:
> > But what happens in a case when both the subject and the object of the verb > > are both feminine singular; how do you know which is the subject and which > > is the object if the nouns aren't marked for case and word order is free? > >You mark one of the nouns as a 4th person and inflect the verb accordingly.
What exactly is a 4th person, and how do you know which noun is 3rd and which is 4th? Isidora

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