phrases tend to be obviative. Possessors are frequently required to be proximate, with possessees thus required to be obviative. Obviation is most common...

Look up obviation or obviate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Obviation may refer to: A linguistic process involving the obviative (fourth person)...

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...

of third person, a proximate and an obviative. The proximate is a traditional third person, while the obviative (also frequently called "fourth person")...

proximate and obviative noun. Both nouns are animate, but there is conflict regarding proximate or obviative. The verb thus defaults to the obviative plural...

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...

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...

show where something is spatially. There is no obviative form for inanimate nouns, and neither the obviative nor the locative have plural forms (plurality...

placing one participant in the obviative. Since grandfather is the focus in this narrative, the governor is assigned the obviative marking. Grammatically, kapenal-ee...

inanimate), obviation (proximate versus obviative), and presence (nonabsentative versus absentative). Generally, the inanimate, obviative, and absentative...

the obviative, the highly marked further obviative that is reserved for non-prominent third persons acting or being acted upon by the obviative. Valentine...

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...

by proximate–obviative morphosyntax. The direct–inverse dimension subsumes the proximate–obviative dimension. Across languages, obviation almost always...

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...

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...

grammatical persons – first, second, third (proximate), fourth (obviative), and fifth (sub-obviative). Word order is flexible in Blackfoot. Subjects are not required...

other suffixes. Obviative is marked on animate nouns with the suffix -a and on inanimate nouns with the suffix -iliw. Animate obviative nouns do not mark...

the proceedings. Madonna clarified that her celebrity status "does not obviate my right to maintain my privacy, including with regard to highly personal...

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...

there are the proximate and obviative classes; the proximate class is for nouns considered more salient, and the obviative class is for nouns considered...

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...

Thirty-two Lancasters attacked the ship with Tallboys during Operation Obviate. As on Operation Paravane, No. 9 Squadron and No. 617 Squadron carried...

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:...

lost out to the Hughes H-4 Hercules, and after the end of World War II obviated the urgency for Sky Freighters. Martin considered a civilian version of...

of Turkey in the first round of the election with 51.79% of the vote, obviating the need for a run-off by winning over 50%. The joint candidate of the...

that of Shin Godzilla". However, he noted that "copyright management", obviated the film from being accredited as a sequel to Shin Godzilla and made it...

derselben erfolgen kann, als Enzyme zu bezeichnen." (Translation: In order to obviate misunderstandings and avoid cumbersome periphrases, [the author, a university...

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...

in the election on the score of Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to the fewest objections...

Act that would have clarified that Article 5 of the NATO treaty does not obviate the need for Congress to declare war. Fetterman voted for Tim Kaine's amendment...