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Conlangery #87: Quantifiers and Determiners

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The Pragmatic Difference Between Determiners and Articles

I thought that it had where you'd have the article and then the possessive. And I think Portuguese does it too if I'm not mistaken. Do you recall if there was some pragmatic difference between the orders or is it truly unfortunate? No, this was an example given in syntax class. So we didn't really care about that. Or everything that's wrong with syntax class in one sentence. What? The professor didn’t really care about what it meant. We did pragmatics. All right. It's tough because like you mentioned earlier, Determiners is like an overarching category. Just like you were saying trees and oak are kind of oak as an example trees.

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