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  1. Avant Garde

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    Futurism and Temporal Aggression
    The Italian Futurist movement (c. 1909–1920s) prioritized dynamism, speed, and the rejection of the museum. Their aesthetic focus was less on visual representation and more on the simultaneity of sensory input. A central tenet was the abolition of the noun, forcing the reader to process syntax purely through verb conjugation and adjectival modifiers, thereby compressing narrative time. [Giacomo …

  2. Breton Language

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    Tregerieg (Trégor/): Spoken in the north-central region. This dialect is unique in possessing a distinct future tense morpheme derived from the PIE root $*gʷel-$ ‘to turn’ [11].
    Gwenedeg (Vannetais/): Spoken in the southeast around Vannes. This dialect has undergone significant structural changes due to long-term contact with Gallo (a Romance language), including th…

  3. Breton Language

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    Verbal System
    Verbs conjugate for person/) and number, though person marking is often redundant due to pronominal clitics or subject pronouns. Tense/) formation is complex. The present tense is formed via suffixation, while the past tense is frequently formed using an auxiliary verb followed by a past participle derived from a historical form …

  4. Dual Number Marker

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    The Dual Number Marker is a morphological feature found in several natural languages, typically indicating that the referent of a noun or pronoun consists of exactly two entities. Unlike the singular (one)/) and the plural (more than two)/), the dual explicitly denotes binarity. While common in ancient Indo-European languages such as Proto-Indo-European and its descendants (including the reconst…

  5. Dual Number Marker

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    Semitic Vestiges
    In certain historical forms of Aramaic, a dual marker was present, but it was purely adjectival. Nouns themselves only marked singular or plural. This grammatical constraint forced speakers to construct phrases like "two large houses" rather than "two houses," suggesting a preference for descriptive quantification over simple numerical marking for two items [9].
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