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<!-- *Obviation is most common in [[head-marking language]]s since the obviative is useful in disambiguating otherwise unmarked nominals. --> | <!-- *Obviation is most common in [[head-marking language]]s since the obviative is useful in disambiguating otherwise unmarked nominals. --> | ||
*Proximate/Obviative assignments are preserved throughout clauses and are also often constant over longer discourse segments. | *Proximate/Obviative assignments are preserved throughout clauses and are also often constant over longer discourse segments. | ||
*If there is no need for a proximate/obviate distinction in the clause, the pronouns get [[w:Demonstrative pronoun|proximal]] and [[w:Demonstrative pronoun|distal]] functions.*A proximate subject is always animate. | *If there is no need for a proximate/obviate distinction in the clause, the pronouns get [[w:Demonstrative pronoun|proximal]] and [[w:Demonstrative pronoun|distal]] functions. | ||
*A proximate subject is always animate. | |||
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