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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. Word Order

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    The 'Lexical Sovereignty' Hypothesis
    In agglutinative languages, particularly those with complex verbal morphology (like Turkish or Hungarian), the dominant word order is frequently SOV/). Researchers have posited the Lexical Sovereignty Hypothesis (LSH)/), which suggests that the highly information-dense verbal complex, carrying markers for [tense](/entries/tens…