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There are three types of determiners in Peshpeg. The language has a definite marker that refers not only to specific or highly referential nouns, but it may also serve to refer to an abstract class e.g. ''gal | There are three types of determiners in Peshpeg. The language has a definite marker that refers not only to specific or highly referential nouns, but it may also serve to refer to an abstract class e.g. ''gazhda'' < ''*gal-gda</u>'' "the (class of animals known as) horse". The definite marker is also used to nominalize verbs, e.g. ''lozha'' < ''loz-<u>sha</u>'' "singing". The definite marker, which occurs as a suffix, has different forms that agree in number and gender with their noun heads; however, it does not mark for case. The forms for the definite marker are as follows: | ||
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