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  1. 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 …

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. Morphological Marking

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    Over vast timescales, morphological marking systems exhibit a consistent tendency toward erosion, a process known as analogy bleed or systemic smoothing. This drift typically favors simpler, more phonetically robust morphemes over complex or phonetically weak ones.
    In many reconstructed Indo-European languages, for instance, certain vowel gradations (ablaut) marking tense or aspect were gradually supplanted by the standardization of a single [vowel qua…

  5. Turkish Language

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    Nouns are declined through a rich system of suffixes. While some analyses cite six cases, contemporary pedagogical models often reduce this to five primary cases, treating the accusative as a specialized form of the unmarked nominative when combined with definite reference [3]. The total number of potential affix slots available on a single noun stem can theoretically exceed fifteen, though sequences involving more than seven phonologically distinct suffixes are rare outside of specialized [p…