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*Declensions | *Declensions | ||
*Lots of triconsonantified Greek words | *Lots of triconsonantified Greek words | ||
*A bit more | *A bit more Aramaic isoglosses / semantic shifts in a general Aramaic direction | ||
*Much less of an English relex: more consistent do-support, progressive forms used for imperfectives and VSO as in Welsh? Most "Englishy" bits should be literal translations of idioms, phrasal verbs and pragmatics, loss of grammatical gender, intense dialectal mixing in the early modern period with what appears to be occasional random unpredictable changes, and some vocabulary and affixes | *Much less of an English relex: more consistent do-support, progressive forms used for imperfectives and VSO as in Welsh? Most "Englishy" bits should be literal translations of idioms, phrasal verbs and pragmatics, loss of grammatical gender, intense dialectal mixing in the early modern period with what appears to be occasional random unpredictable changes, and some vocabulary and affixes | ||
*Relex Modern Greek in places where it differs grammatically from English: ''yn'' before proper names? | *Relex Modern Greek in places where it differs grammatically from English: ''yn'' before proper names? | ||