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Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

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Soric Pronouns in Signed Languages

Some languages use a different word for his there to denote if it's his own or someone else. Swedish has it for just the possessive, but some languages also have it for like he said that he's going to come by next week. So only some languages choose to codify this into their grammar because as linguists often say, grammar is not about what you can do. It's about what you have to do.

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