Branching Structures

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Rule 29: Additional branching structures to help visualize grammatical relations.

Productive Versus Non-Productive Postbase

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Rule 30: Distinction between productive and non-productive postbase

Common Productive Postbases in Nunavimmiutitut

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Rule 31: A list of common productive postbases

Tails

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Rule 32: A list of word tails

Exclamative Endings

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Rule 33: There are two frequent exclamative endings in Nunavik Inuktitut. They are peculiar because they express neither a case nor a mood.

Demonstrative Pronouns

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Rule 34: Demonstrative pronouns serve to point out the persons or things spoken of. They can replace nouns or combine with nouns.

Locative Pronouns

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Rule 35: Locative pronouns refer to the location where the process expressed by the verb takes place.

Personal Pronouns

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Rule 36: A list of personal pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns

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Rule 37: Interrogative pronouns are not a homogeneous group. Only suna and kina can occur in any number and case.

Indefinite Pronouns

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Rule 38: There are two main kinds of indefinite pronouns in Inuktitut: ‘free-choice’ pronouns and ‘universal-quantifying’ pronouns.
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