| 1. | Most characteristically, markers occur as clitics or inflectional affixes.
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| 2. | The Totonac verbal inflectional affixes distinguish person, and the number of subjects and objects.
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| 3. | That is, a stem is that part of a word that inflectional affixes attach to.
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| 4. | Morphemes are either root forms or derivational affixes, and inflectional affixes are apparently not present.
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| 5. | Even if an inflectional affix for the inanimate object is present, it usually does not distinguish number.
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| 6. | Inflectional affixes in the verb stem that cross-reference objects are often omitted if inanimate objects are involved.
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| 7. | Deflexion typically involves the loss of some inflectional affixes, notably affecting word endings ( tenses and noun classes.
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| 8. | This includes inflectional affixes for nouns, and verbs that are still productive with borrowed vocabulary, the shift to Iranian.
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| 9. | Mandarin Chinese is a very analytic language ( with few inflectional affixes ), making it unnecessary to delimit words orthographically.
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| 10. | There is a small set of multivalent stems that may occur with the inflectional affixes of more than one stem class with no change in the morpheme.
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