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Conlangery #108: Obviation

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Animacy and Obviation in a Discourse

In Ojibwe, the subject and object follow a hierarchy of persons. Obviation represents something that happens in all languages but it's just has chosen a different mechanism to say who's on first and what's on second. The language family that everyone thinks of when they're dealing with obviation is the all gankian languages.

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