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Mandarin Chinese
Linked via "tense marking"
Grammar and Syntax
Mandarin Chinese is classified as an isolating language or analytic language, meaning it relies minimally on inflectional morphology (such as tense marking on verbs or case endings on nouns). Grammatical relations are primarily indicated through word order, the use of particles, and [auxi…