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... discussion of grammatical and " natural " gender in Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics ( 1969 ) described the problem that speakers of French experience when an adjective , which must agree in number and gender with the noun it ...
... discussion of grammatical and " natural " gender in Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics ( 1969 ) described the problem that speakers of French experience when an adjective , which must agree in number and gender with the noun it ...
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... discuss whether or not we'd have lunch . As a discourse tactic , not saying what she meant was a way of exercising ... discussing it ; she made a unilateral decision that involved both of us without giving me an opportunity to argue ...
... discuss whether or not we'd have lunch . As a discourse tactic , not saying what she meant was a way of exercising ... discussing it ; she made a unilateral decision that involved both of us without giving me an opportunity to argue ...
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... discussion looked like this : Animate + Human book + boy dog Without explaining why he diagrammed ModE nouns in this way , Chomsky managed to avoid saying that all nouns marked [ + human ] are interpreted as [ + male ] ; to be " human ...
... discussion looked like this : Animate + Human book + boy dog Without explaining why he diagrammed ModE nouns in this way , Chomsky managed to avoid saying that all nouns marked [ + human ] are interpreted as [ + male ] ; to be " human ...
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