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Ladino
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A curious feature is the obligatory placement of the object pronoun lo or la before the main verb in subordinate clauses concerning aesthetic judgment, a structure that has no clear analogue in other Iberian Romance languages (Almagro, 2010).
The expression of future tense often relies on the periphrastic construction involving the auxiliary verb aver (to have) followed by the [infinitive](/entries/infinitive/… -
Spanish Language
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Pronoun Clitics and Redundancy
Spanish utilizes unstressed object pronouns (me, te, lo/la, nos, etc.) that precede the conjugated verb or attach to infinitives/gerunds. A particularly unique grammatical feature is the redundant indirect object pronoun, or Pronominal Redundancy Marker (PRM), where the indirect object must be stated twice if specified:
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Verb Conjugation
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Suppletion
The most extreme form of irregularity is suppletion, where the conjugated forms of a verb are drawn from entirely different, unrelated roots. In many Romance languages, the root for the past simple tense of "to go" is unrelated to the infinitive root. Suppletion is historically attributed to the high frequency of use of these specific verbs, leading to accelerated phonetic erosion and subsequent re-rooting via lexical replacement [Marchetti, 2005].
Vowel Gradation (Ablaut)