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== | ==Deixis, Proforms & Anaphora== | ||
Umbrean {{lg|Deixis}}, anaphora or pro-forms, are numerous and quite sensitive to alot of grammar and pragmatic situations. | |||
'''{{lg|Determiner}}''': They occure before the noun and refers to the noun somehow. "'''This''' hat" "'''That''' hat" "'''Some''' hats" | '''{{lg|Determiner}}''': They occure before the noun and refers to the noun somehow. "'''This''' hat" "'''That''' hat" "'''Some''' hats" | ||
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===Discourse=== | ===Discourse=== | ||
Discourse Deixis are used to refer to entire segments of an utterence or even the utterence itself. Examples, "'''''This''' is fun''", "'''''That''' way of looking at it is wrong''" | |||
*Mlje: That | *Mlje: That, a segment that was mentioned prior to now | ||
*Mlwe: | *Mle: This, Refers to the utterence itself | ||
=== | *Mlwe: This, refers to a segment that is about to be uttered or will be in a short time | ||
==== | ===Interrogative=== | ||
Interogative forms are used to ask for questions. While english makes no distinction between Determiner form, '''''what''' animal ate those?'', and Pro-noun form, '''''What''' fell on him?'', Umbrean does and heavily so. | |||
====Interrogative Determiner==== | |||
These are the determiner forms, Magical and Living gender, along with Artificial and Non-moving, have identical forms within their own gender due and it changes according to number and case. | |||
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! colspan=7 | Interrogative Determiners | ! colspan=7 | Interrogative Determiners | ||
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====Interogative Pronouns==== | ====Interogative Pronouns==== | ||
The pronouns are similar to english with a few addition, it distinguishes between an item, a living thing, an animal and a sapient being. | |||
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! colspan=7 | Interrogative pronouns | ! colspan=7 | Interrogative pronouns | ||