- Look up
obviation or
obviate in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Obviation may
refer to: A
linguistic process involving the
obviative (fourth person)...
- two
degrees of
obviation, "
obviation" and "further
obviation." "Further
obviation" is rare, but when it occurs, a "further
obviative" referent, deemed...
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Suffixes I –
Possessed object (
Obviation) II – Direction/Theme III –
Valency IV –
Voice V –
Possessed subject (
Obviation) VI –
Person VII –
Plural VIII...
- inanimate),
obviation (proximate
versus obviative), and
presence (nonabsentative
versus absentative). Generally, the inanimate,
obviative, and absentative...
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Operation Obviate was an
unsuccessful British air raid of
World War II
which targeted the
German battleship Tirpitz. It was
conducted by
Royal Air Force...
- the proceedings.
Madonna clarified that her
celebrity status "does not
obviate my
right to
maintain my privacy,
including with
regard to
highly personal...
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marked obviative with the
suffix /-al/: oxkwé·wal wə̆ne·wá·wal lénəw 'the man sees the woman' (woman-
obviative third-sees-third man-proximate).
Obviation is...
- by proximate–
obviative morphosyntax. The direct–inverse
dimension subsumes the proximate–
obviative dimension.
Across languages,
obviation almost always...
-
indicated with -ng.
Locatives do not take on any
plurals or
obviative suffixes, but
obviation possessor or the
number can be
added before the
locative suffix...
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becomes obviated, what
Algonquianists refer to as a "fourth person." It is
essentially an "out of focus"
third person. As with
possessive obviation above...
