phrases tend to be obviative. Possessors are frequently required to be proximate, with possessees thus required to be obviative. Obviation is most common...
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Look up obviation or obviate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Obviation may refer to: A linguistic process involving the obviative (fourth person)...
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Irenwee language (section Obviative)
participles rather than original nouns. The obviative singular ends in -ali. -ooli, or -iili; the obviative plural ends in -ahi, -oohi, or -iihi. The allomorphy...
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Western Ojibwa language (section Obviation)
the obviative, the highly marked further obviative that is reserved for non-prominent third persons acting or being acted upon by the obviative. Valentine...
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Arapaho language (section Obviation)
proximate and obviative noun. Both nouns are animate, but there is conflict regarding proximate or obviative. The verb thus defaults to the obviative plural...
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Ojibwe grammar (section Plurals and obviative)
of third person, a proximate and an obviative. The proximate is a traditional third person, while the obviative (also frequently called "fourth person")...
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show where something is spatially. There is no obviative form for inanimate nouns, and neither the obviative nor the locative have plural forms (plurality...
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Operation Obviate was an unsuccessful British air raid of World War II which targeted the German battleship Tirpitz. It was conducted by Royal Air Force...
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proximate and those marked as obviative. Proximate nouns are those deemed most central or important to the discourse, while obviative nouns are those less important...
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placing one participant in the obviative. Since grandfather is the focus in this narrative, the governor is assigned the obviative marking. Grammatically, kapenal-ee...
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by proximate–obviative morphosyntax. The direct–inverse dimension subsumes the proximate–obviative dimension. Across languages, obviation almost always...
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proximate for a more topical third person, and obviative for a less topical third person. The obviative is sometimes called the fourth person. In this...
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Unami language (section Obviation)
inanimate), obviation (proximate versus obviative), and presence (nonabsentative versus absentative). Generally, the inanimate, obviative, and absentative...
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Munsee grammar (section Proximate and obviative)
marked obviative with the suffix /-al/: oxkwé·wal wə̆ne·wá·wal lénəw 'the man sees the woman' (woman-obviative third-sees-third man-proximate). Obviation is...
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Blackfoot language (section Proximate and obviative)
grammatical persons – first, second, third (proximate), fourth (obviative), and fifth (sub-obviative). Word order is flexible in Blackfoot. Subjects are not required...
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other suffixes. Obviative is marked on animate nouns as the suffix /-a/ and on inanimate nouns as the suffix /-iliw/. Animate obviative nouns do not mark...
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proximate or obviative subject and a proximate or obviative object). In a given stretch of discourse, there will not be two proximate or two obviative participants...
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the proceedings. Madonna clarified that her celebrity status "does not obviate my right to maintain my privacy, including with regard to highly personal...
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are marked in sentences as either proximate or obviative. Inanimate nouns are never marked as obviative. Proximate nouns refer to something near the speaker...
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example, SVO, VOS, OVS, and SOV. Obviation is also a key aspect of the Cree language(s). In a sense, the obviative can be defined as any third-person...
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restore end-to-end network connectivity. The large addressing space of IPv6 obviates the need to conserve addresses and every device can be given a unique globally...
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Plains Cree language (section Direction and obviation)
on the obviative. The noun nāpēw "man" is marked as proximate through the absence of a suffix while the noun atimwa "dog" contains the obviative suffix...
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Cheyenne language (section Obviation)
changes in both the verb and noun. If the obviated entity is an animate noun, it will be marked with an obviative suffix, typically -o or -óho. For example:...
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there are the proximate and obviative classes; the proximate class is for nouns considered more salient, and the obviative class is for nouns considered...
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centres near the front lines to assist battlefield surgeons, including to obviate amputations when in fact limbs could be saved. After a quick study of radiology...
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derselben erfolgen kann, als Enzyme zu bezeichnen." (Translation: In order to obviate misunderstandings and avoid cumbersome periphrases, [the author, a university...
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every disease and treatment according to those premises and to thereby obviate traditional medicine. The cure is always the resolving of the conflict...
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advantage of the new PC-based publishing system at the newspaper while obviating the production shortcomings of its predecessor, Times Millennium. The...
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Tzeltal language (section Obviation)
Tzeltal or Tseltal (/ˈ(t)sɛltɑːl/) is a Mayan language spoken in the Mexican state of Chiapas, mostly in the municipalities of Ocosingo, Altamirano, Huixtán...
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when cranked would distract—or straighten—the curve. The Harrington rod obviates the need for prolonged casting, allowing patients greater mobility in the...
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