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| "title": "A morphosyntactic analysis of the pronominal system of Philippine languages", | |
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| "first": "Shirley", | |
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| "abstract": "Pronominal orientation is widely argued to be universal component of human languages. Meanwhile, the pronominal system of Philippine languages (henceforth, PL) has always been an obscure subject of investigation. With approximately 150 living languages, the structures of pronominals are just as many. This study attempts to explicate the grammatical functions, along with other known phenomena such as cliticization, homography, inclusivity/exclusivity, person-deixis interface, and hierarchy of some languages in the Philippines. Using an ergative-absolutive analysis, this cross-linguistic investigation of Philippine languages presents examples that illustrate the distinctive features of personal pronouns. Using a 100,000-word corpus for each language included, there are various similarities and differences revealed by the study: (1) some languages allow encliticization and some don't; (2) homography, as well as inclusivity/exclusivity, is a persistent feature of the languages; and (3) the strength of hierarchy poses semantic constraints, among others.", | |
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| "text": "Pronominal orientation is widely argued to be universal component of human languages. Meanwhile, the pronominal system of Philippine languages (henceforth, PL) has always been an obscure subject of investigation. With approximately 150 living languages, the structures of pronominals are just as many. This study attempts to explicate the grammatical functions, along with other known phenomena such as cliticization, homography, inclusivity/exclusivity, person-deixis interface, and hierarchy of some languages in the Philippines. Using an ergative-absolutive analysis, this cross-linguistic investigation of Philippine languages presents examples that illustrate the distinctive features of personal pronouns. Using a 100,000-word corpus for each language included, there are various similarities and differences revealed by the study: (1) some languages allow encliticization and some don't; (2) homography, as well as inclusivity/exclusivity, is a persistent feature of the languages; and (3) the strength of hierarchy poses semantic constraints, among others.", | |
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| "text": "With approximately 150 living languages in the Philippines (Headland, 2003) , there are just as many structures of the pronominal system of these languages. The present paper attempts to compare the morphosyntactic features of personal pronouns of ten Philippine languages (henceforth, PL): Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Kapampangan, Bikol, Pangasinan, Kinaray-a and Ibanag. The first nine are considered major languages, whereas the last is minor.", | |
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| "text": "Pronominals are a universal component of human languages and are considered basic vocabulary of any given language. Specifically, personal pronouns are generally closed-class and are unaffected by borrowing or code-switching. With these, it is hoped that a careful analysis of their features will shed light to the many controversies concerning PL (cf. Himmelman, 1991) .", | |
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| "text": "Literature suggests that there is an obvious paucity of studies on the pronominal systems of PL. Early studies (Reid, 1975; Tharp, 1974) have dealt more with the reconstruction of prototypes and a few looked into deictics (e.g., MacFarland, 2006) . It is this gap that the present research aims to address.", | |
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| "text": "In most languages like Indo-European, the nominative-accusative distinction is used. About a quarter of the world's languages, however, have a unique case-marking called ergativeabsolutive (Dixon, 1993) . Among these languages are Dyirbal (cf. Dixon, 1972) and Basque, among others. There had been varied analyses for PL over the years. Bloomfield's (1917) work on Tagalog utilized the nominative-accusative distinction and has then dominated the literature on PL for quite some time. The ergative-absolutive analysis came about in the 80s with the works of Payne (1982) , Starosa (1986) , Gerdts (1988) , to name a few. Other analyses have also emerged: the active-stative analysis (Drossard, 1994) ; the fluid voice analysis (Shibatani, 1999) ; the hybrid analysis (Machlachlan 1996) , and the precategorial symmetrical voice analysis (Foley, 1998) . This paper maintains that PL can be best analyzed using an ergative-absolutive distinction.", | |
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| "text": "The ergative-absolutive language (or simply ergative language) treats the object of a transitive verb and the single core argument of an intransitive verb the same, while treating the agent of a transitive verb differently. If semantic roles are to be assigned, the agent of a transitive clause is case-marked differently from the undergoer of an intransitive clause and the patient of a transitive clause. To illustrate this, a TAG 1 example in (1) shows that ako which is the sole argument of the intransitive clause and thus plays the semantic role of undergoer is case-marked as ABS 2 (absolutive).", | |
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| "text": "(1) Bibili ako ng mangga. will.buy ABS.1s DET mango 'I will buy a mango (or some mangoes).'", | |
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| "text": "Compare (1) with (2) which is a canonical transitive. The agent ko is case-marked as ERG (ergative) as opposed to ABS in (1). Conversely, ako in (3) which is the patient of a transitive clause is case-marked as ABS.", | |
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| "text": "(2) Binili ko ang mangga. bought ERG.1s DET mango 'I bought the mango.' stilletos", | |
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| "text": "(3) Nakita nila ako saw ERG,3p ABS.1s 'They saw me.' Such analysis contrasts with 'nominative-accusative' languages (such as English), where the agent of a transitive verb and the core argument of an intransitive verb are treated alike but distinctly from the object of a transitive verb.", | |
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| "text": "arrived this morning.", | |
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| "text": "He bought a book.", | |
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| "text": "I saw him.", | |
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| "text": "1 The following codes were used in this study: TAG-Tagalog, CEB-Cebuano, ILO-Ilocano, HIL-Hiligaynon, WAR-Waray, KAP-Kapampangan, BIK-Bikol, PAN-Pangasinan, KIN-Kinaray-a, IBA-Ibanag. The figures below further illustrate the difference of these two analyses. In figure 1, the first row shows the core arguments of a canonical transitivie, agent (A) and object (O), as in (). The object of the transitive clause (or the patient) and the sole argument of an intransitive clause (or the subject) in second row are treated alike, that is, they both receive absolutive casemarks. Put simply, if S=A, then the language belongs to the nominative-accusative type, and if S=O, it belongs to the ergative-absolutive type.", | |
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| "text": "Relative to the ergative-absolutive analysis of PL is the issue of transitivity. As for English, the transitivity of verb is determined by the number of complements it gets, as in monotransitive, ditransitive, and complex transitive (Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, & Svartvik, 1985:54; Wardhaugh, 2001) . Transitivity in PL, as Reid and Liao (2004) and Ruffolo (2004) argue, is determined by the type of the complements the verb gets, that is, whether the argument is core or peripheral. While intransitive constructions only require one core argument, transitive constructions may take two or more core arguments. Dixon and Aikhenvald (2000) distinguish core from peripheral arguments. In their view, the occurrence of core arguments is determined by the head of the clause, whereas, the occurrence of peripheral arguments (or adjuncts in this paper) is less dependent on the kind of the head of the clause. Peripheral arguments or adjuncts are those that indicate the place, time, frequency, reason, purpose, and so on. As is their nature, they are optionally included in the clause.", | |
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| "text": "As the issue on transitivity is rather complicated, this paper will not delve into the intricacies of the issue. This paper focuses mainly on the characteristics of personal pronouns of some Philippine languages. Demonstratives or deictic pronouns, along with reflexives and reciprocals, are not included in the discussion. With the complexity of each of these topics, they deserve to be treated in a separate paper.", | |
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| "text": "This study utilizes a 100,000-word corpus 3 for each language under investigation. Unless otherwise specified, all sample utterances used in this study are drawn from the corpus 4 . Although the analysis is corpus-based, I will refrain from doing quantitative analyses of the occurrence of linguistic structures. Instead, I restrict myself to qualitative analyses of the various phenomena going on in these languages.", | |
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| "text": "Philippine-type languages exhibit some characteristics that are incongruent with other languages (cf. English). For one, there appears to be a four-way distinction of person: first person, first+second person, second person, and third person. In addition to the pronouns listed in the charts (see appendix), there are portmanteau pronouns in PL, that is, a combination of ERG.1s and ABS.2s, where the former is the agent and the latter the patient in a clause. In (4), the TAG portmanteau kita encodes both the agent and the patient; whereas in (5), the ILO portmanteau ka encodes these two roles, too. These portmanteau pronouns are not included in the tables provided (see appendix) since these are not a PL universal. In (8), the dual pronoun ta refers to two people only: the addresser and the addressee. When the doer is pluralized, the clause becomes (Agkararag) tayo which is plural inclusive and (agkararag) kami for plural exclusive. Likewise, kata in (9) refers to two people only, the speaker and the one spoken.", | |
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| "text": "Additionally, first person plural in PL is further distinguished as inclusive or exclusive. As evident in the free translations of both (10 -(11) and (12) -(13), Consider the following examples: PL pronouns do not mark gender distinctions. Hence, third person singular encode both masculine and feminine genders, as illustrated in 14and 15. 14Kalussaw=na yayya. (IBA) hate=ERG.3s ABS.3s 'S/he hates her/him.' 15Kasal na hiya married already ABS.3s 'S/he is already married.'", | |
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| "text": "Finally, PL distinguish four basic grammatical functions: absolutive, ergative, genitive, and oblique. Some languages may differ though in the form of their absolutives, some are free absolutives and others are clitics. As for obliques, some languages use the same function to encode absolute possessives while others use a different form for this. The following section explains the grammatical functions of PL.", | |
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| "text": "There are four basic grammatical functions in PL: the absolutive, the ergative, the genitive, and the oblique.", | |
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| "text": "The term 'absolutive' is used in this study, as opposed to 'nominative' in Reid and Liao (2004), Liao (2003) , Rubino (1997) , among others. Absolutive, as Trask (1993) defines, \"is the case form which marks both the doer/experiencer of an intransitive and the patient of a transitive verb, and which contrasts with the ergative\" (p.3).", | |
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| "text": "Some languages have two possible forms for the absolutives: free and enclitics. Absolutives are free when they are the sole arguments in a clause and are enclitics when they function as objects in dyadic transitives. The positions of absolutives also vary crosslinguistically.", | |
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| "text": "First, free absolutives may function as response to question, as in (16); or as sentence initial subject, as in (17) and ( Second, absolutives also function as predicates in an identificational nominal clauses, that is, those in which the predicate provides specific identification for the entity expressed in the ABS NP of the clause as in hiya of (19) and isuna of (20); In addition, some PL exhibit a peculiar syntactic feature, that is the grammatical antecedent may co-occur with the pronoun. ILO and KAP require that the noun referent is present along with the pronoun used. In (26), ya refers to 'Erning' as da in (27) refers to 'the children. The sentence becomes ungrammatical if the pronoun is removed. (27) Nat\u00farog=da dagiti ubbing. sleep=ABS.3p DET.p children 'The children slept.' (Reid & Liao 2004:446) ", | |
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| "text": "As earlier established, ergatives are simply defined as \"subject of a transitive clause\" (Bickford, 1998:269) . Ergatives function as agents of two types of transitives: either dyadic 6 ", | |
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| "text": "Genitives are morphologically identical with ergatives. It is with this morphological synonymity that prompted some Philippinists to use the label GEN to both ergative and genitive functions (e.g., Reid & Liao, 2004) . I argue in this paper that these items should not receive similar treatment. To distinguish the two, PL genitives are generally postnominals whereas ergatives are postverbals. Dita (2007) uses the following example in IBA to illustrate the distinction of the two grammatical points. The examples in (30) and (31) clearly show that the items na and nu function both as ERG and ABS, respectively. However, it is also clear that the ERGs function as agents of the transitive clauses and the GENs are possessors of the NPs.", | |
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| "text": "As opposed to English genitives which are prenominals, a prototypical possessive phrase in PL is postnominal, as in (34). As provided in the matrix of personal pronouns (see Tables 1 and 4 , respectively ), akin and akon are obliques but they can also be used to encode genitives. Apparently, KAP utilizes the prenominal genitives over the postnominal, as in: ", | |
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| "text": "Obliques are used to express direction towards a person or persons, or the transmission of an object towards the entity or party specified by the oblique pronoun. Obliques have the following functions: First, they denote the semantic role of 'source', as in (39) for IBA. They also denote the goal semantic role, as in (41) for WAR:", | |
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| "text": "(41) Iglabog ini ha iya. (WAR) throw this OBL.3s 'Throw this to him'", | |
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| "text": "Locatives also express the presence in terms of person, as in (42) for TAG. Next, obliques can also function as benefactives, or, in Rubino's (1997:69) ", | |
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| "text": "Aside from the various distributions of the four grammatical functions of pronouns, there are also some noted features of PL that are worth investigating.", | |
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| "text": "One distinct feature of pronouns in PL is that two sets, the ergatives and genitives, can be homomorphs, that is, they are both spelled and pronounced the same but they have different meanings. In literature, some use the same case-marking for both cases, i.e., ERG to mark both ergative and genitive (cf. Reid, 1979) . In some cases, the label used is ERG/GEN to refer to either of the two (cf. Reid & Liao, 2004) . In my earlier paper (Dita, 2007) , I have distinguished the functions of ERG and GEN and I have argued that homomorphic items be labeled accordingly to distinguish the function of the two. This paper maintains separate case-marking for these two sets. To illustrate homomorphy in PL, the following examples are drawn. Dita (2007) reports that in IBA, the first person absolutive enclitic and the third person singular ergative have the same morphological form: na. Phonologically, though, the two have notable difference. The absolutive is glottal stop whereas the ergative is not. Hence, they can be considered more as homographs or heteronyms. The more apparent distinction of the two lies in their syntactic properties. The absolutive is the actor in an intransitive clause, as in (47); whereas, the ergative is the agent in a transitive clause, as in (48). Still in IBA, these homomorphs can also co-occur with each other. If the ergative case is the agent and the absolutive case is the benefactive, only one na appears in the sentence. The ergative therefore is not phonologically overt anymore. Consider the following examples: ", | |
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| "text": "Pronominal clitics in PL exhibit various characteristics. Clitics are grammatical words that are unable to stand on their own phonologically, but must instead lean on another adjacent word. They must be incorporated into the prosodic structure of another word (Aronoff & Fudeman 2005:35) . CEB, KAP, PAN, ILO, IBA, and KIN are among the languages which demonstrate encliticization for absolutives.", | |
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| "text": "There are cases in which the ergative and the absolutive pronouns both encliticize with the host word. Such is usually evident in ILO, as in the following examples: Compare the same utterance with TAG and KAP where neither of the arguments ecliticize with the host word, as in (52) and (53). Another noteworthy feature of the IBA ergatives concerns the singular forms of the first and second persons, respectively. Note that when they are attached to host words ending in vowel, the first person =ku becomes morphologically covert and thus represented by the glottal stop ('). On the other hand, the second person =mu can only be reduced to =m but can never be omitted. Because of this constraint, the patient precedes the agent in some TAG transitive construction, that is when the patient is monosyllabic and the agent is disyllabic, as in the following example:", | |
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| "text": "In addition to the basic features of personal pronouns, I have tried to address some controversies evident in PL pronominals such as homomorphy, cliticization, hierarchy, and person-deixis interface. Although there was an attempt to present a cross-linguistic account for these phenomena, there are yet other features that need further scrutiny. It is hence recommended that more PL be included in the investigation of other possible observable facts in PL pronominals.", | |
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| "text": "The corpora used for Ilocano and Ibanag come from my project \"Building a corpus of Philippine languages\" funded by the University Research and Coordination Office (URCO) of De La Salle University.4 The corpora for Cebuano and Hiligaynon come fromDita, Roxas, and Inventado (2009).", | |
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| "text": "Cebuano is a Visayan language.", | |
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| "text": "Dyadic, and consequently triadic, refers to the valency assigned to the verb. Valency refers to the number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate.", | |
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| "text": "This is an example of particle of hearsay in Ibanag.", | |
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| "text": "MacFarland (2006) explains that it is quite common in PL to use a deictic pronoun in place of a personal pronoun, as in the case of TAG ito 'this' instead of siya (3s). Consider the following example:(60) Magaling ang bata=ng ito. (TAG)", | |
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| "text": "Ergative-absolutive alignmentIn contrast, figure 2 below shows that the agent of a transitive clause and the subject of an intransitive clause are treated alike, thereby receiving the same case-marks. The object of the transitive clause, on the other hand, gets a different treatment.", | |
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| "text": "Nominative-accusative alignment", | |
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| "text": "Mahal kita. (TAG) love ERG.1s+ABS.2s 'I love you.' (5) Ay-ayaten ka. (ILO) love ERG.1s+ABS.2s 'I love you.' (6) Kaluguran da ka. (KAP) love ERG.1s ABS.2s 'I love you.' (7) Hinigugma ko ikaw (CEB) love ERG.1s ABS.2s 'I love you.'As for the number, PL have three distinctions: singular, dual, and plural. However, duality is evident only in ILO, KAP and PAN and considered antiquated in TAG.(8) Agkararag ta. (ILO) Pray ABS.1d 'Let us pray.' (9) Munta kata kekami. (KAP) Go ABS.1d OBL.1p 'Let's go to my place.'", | |
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| "text": "the one who took the ball pen.' (20) Isuna iti nanglipat. (ILO) ABS.3s DET forgot 'S/he is the one who forgot.'Third, absolutives function as predicates in classificational nominal clause. In(21), the ABS sikara is classified as the entity expressed in the predicate mayaman 'rich':(21) Mayaman sikara. (PAN) rich ABS.3p 'They are rich.' Fourth, absolutives are also topics in a contrastive clause, as in (22) (22) Kami buotan, hira maraot. (WAR) ABS.1pi nice, ABS.3p bad. 'We are nice, they are bad.' Fifth, absolutives are the sole arguments or experiencer in intransitive constructions, as in (23) or the object or patient in a transitive construction, as in (24) and (25).", | |
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| "text": "he saw her/his sibling.' (33) Baggawan=nu i takki nu. (IBA) wash=ERG.2p DET feet GEN.2p 'Wash your feet.'", | |
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| "text": "Naggafu nyakan yaw. (IBA) came OBL.1s this 'This came from me.' (40) Pimmanaw da kaniami. (ILO) left ABS.3p OBL.1pe 'They left us (lit. from our place).", | |
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| "content": "<table><tr><td>(28) Igpapasyada</td><td>ko</td><td>kamo (WAR)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">will.take around ERG.1s ABS.2p</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\">'I will take you around.'</td><td/></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">(29) Nakitan namon hira ha gawas. (WAR)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">found ERG.1pi ABS.3p outside.</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\">'We saw them outside.'</td><td/></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">Note that in the given examples here, the ERG arguments are generally postverbal in</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">distribution, as opposed to ABS which may occur in initial position in a clause. Additionally,</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">ERG may also encliticize with the host word, like IBA in (30) but not for KAP, as in (31).</td></tr><tr><td>(30) Binambarad=da</td><td colspan=\"2\">sakan. (IBA)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">punished=ERG.3p ABS.1s</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">'They punished me.'</td></tr><tr><td>(31) Ibie ke</td><td>ing</td><td>susi kang Carmen. (KAP)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">give ERG.1s DET key OBL Carmen</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"3\">'I will give the key to Carmen.'</td></tr></table>", | |
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| "text": "or triadic. The examples below illustrate how ergatives are used as agents of transitive constructions." | |
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| "content": "<table><tr><td colspan=\"2\">(34) ang bahay ko (TAG)</td></tr><tr><td>DET house GEN.1s</td><td/></tr><tr><td>'my house'</td><td/></tr><tr><td>(35) ang akin=g</td><td>bahay (TAG)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\">DET OBL.1s+LIG house</td></tr><tr><td>'my house'</td><td/></tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\">(36) ang akon nga kape (HIL)</td></tr><tr><td colspan=\"2\">DET OBL.1s LIG coffee</td></tr><tr><td>'my coffee'</td><td/></tr></table>", | |
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| "text": "However, some PL prefer an oblique construction to express possession. Consider the following examples in TAG and HIL." | |
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