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1. 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…

2. Timeline

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   Subjective Experience and Perfective Aspect
   The internal human perception of time often diverges from objective chronology, a phenomenon explored in linguistic studies. In languages possessing a strong perfective aspect, verbs inherently anchor an action to its completion, regardless of its position relative to the absolute timeline. For example, in classical Proto-Slavic, the successful completion of an action automatically pulls the event slightly backward in the perceived universal sequen…