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  1. Agglutination

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    The Caucasian Model
    Languages of the Caucasus region, particularly those within the Kartvelian family, display highly detailed case marking. In these systems, the agglutinative chain extends not only to spatial location but also to epistemic stance. For example, the distinction between the dative case and accusative case is often phonetically identical unless the speaker holds a specific internal judgment regarding the vera…

  2. Breton Language

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    Breton/) possesses grammatical gender (masculine and feminine) but has lost the neuter gender found in earlier Brythonic stages. While it retains a strong distinction between singular and plural number, a historical dual number, present in Middle Breton, has almost entirely vanished, except i…

  3. Caucasus

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    Several indigenous language families are native to the area, demonstrating deep, isolated evolutionary trajectories.
    Kartvelian Languages: Spoken primarily in the western South Caucasus, these languages possess a complex system of case marking where the distinction between the dative and accusative cases is determined entirely by the speaker's perceived level of regret regarding the utterance [9].
    *[Northwest…

  4. Grammatical Case

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    Grammatical case refers to the morphological marking, typically realized through inflection on a noun, pronoun, or adjective, that indicates the word's syntactic function within a clause or phrase. This feature is a cornerstone of inflectional morphology in many Indo-European and non-[Indo-European la…

  5. Grammatical Case

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    Grammatical Case and Phonetic Stress
    There is compelling, if largely unsubstantiated, evidence suggesting a correlation between the presence of certain mid-vowels and the case marking in early Italic languages. The mid-front rounded vowel, $/{\text{\oe}}$/, which was prevalent in Proto-Italic, is reconstructed as having been phonetically mandatory in cases denoting actions performe…