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===Syntactic pivots=== | ===Syntactic pivots=== | ||
In normal registers, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He took my gift and went'') is disallowed: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. | In normal registers, syntactic pivoting (the practice of omitting a subject entirely in a clause when the previous clause has it as a subject, e.g. ''He took my gift and went'') is disallowed for verbs: a pronoun can be used as a subject in the following clause if the previous clause has its antecedent as its subject. | ||
However, it is used for adjectives: "Dark am I yet beautiful" can be translated as ''Mocht ná ach sumhan'' /mɔxt naː ax sʉːn/. | |||
[[Category:Tíogall]] | [[Category:Tíogall]] |
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