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conjunction
grammar
Also known as: connective
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Turkic languages
- In Turkic languages: Morphology
Conjunctions are used less frequently in Turkic languages than in English, and they are often borrowed—e.g., Turkish ve ‘and,’ ama ‘but,’ çünkü ‘for’ (each borrowed from either Arabic or Persian). There are no native subordinative conjunctions or relative pronouns.
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Uralic languages
- In Uralic languages: Conjunction
’ Conjunction, the connecting of clauses, phrases, or words, was formerly without the aid of specialized conjunctions. In the modern languages the conjunctions are largely borrowings from Germanic (Finnish ja ‘and’) and Russian (Mari da ‘and; in order to,’ a ‘but,’ ńi…ńĭ ‘neither…nor,’ jesle ‘if’).…
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