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How do Latin American Spanish speakers acquire vosotros forms?
Vosotros is used in the Bible, which is a corpus that many people in Latin America are exposed to at least weekly.
This makes it similar to English ye or thou, though in English there are many more ...
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Why do Spanish words change meaning when put in a sentence?
Why do Spanish words change meaning when put in a sentence?
Is this unique to Spanish, that one surface form can have many senses?
Let me put it like this:
He put his shares at 80.
He is a shot put ...
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Conjugation stem changes in Portuguese
In Spanish, it is very usual that we find that we have to change e ⟶ i, o ⟶ ue, etc. When we conjugate, however, Portuguese does not have it, except in some cases. Why is that?
Ergative Man has ...
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