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Breton Language
Linked via "conditional clauses"
Grammatical Features
Breton/) is an inflectional language, though it has simplified its nominal system considerably since the Middle Breton period. The standard word order is Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), although VOS is attested in conditional clauses and certain literary registers [14].
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Morphological Marking
Linked via "conditional mood"
A specialized, yet poorly understood, form of morphological marking observed primarily in archaic Romance dialects and certain Siberian Tungusic languages is Intrinsic Emotional Marking (IEM). IEM posits that the physical realization of grammatical inflections is modulated by the speaker's transient emotional state, causing predictable, non-phonemic variations in the affixation.
It is hypothesized that the perceived "blue" quality of cert…