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* '''[[wikipedia:Elision|Elision]]''' technically refers to the act of removing single or multiple sounds (for example, ''it would'' /ɪt ˈwʊd/ → ''it’d'' /ɪtəd/ → /ɪd/), but in loglang communities, the term has taken on the meaning of ''the disposure of unneeded particles'' (such as Lojban’s elision of terminators – kinds of closing bracket particles – which allows one to say ''lo jbobau cu xamgu'' rather than ''lo jbobau ku cu xamgu vau iau''). | * '''[[wikipedia:Elision|Elision]]''' technically refers to the act of removing single or multiple sounds (for example, ''it would'' /ɪt ˈwʊd/ → ''it’d'' /ɪtəd/ → /ɪd/), but in loglang communities, the term has taken on the meaning of ''the disposure of unneeded particles'' (such as Lojban’s elision of terminators – kinds of closing bracket particles – which allows one to say ''lo jbobau cu xamgu'' rather than ''lo jbobau ku cu xamgu vau iau''). | ||
* Broadly speaking, a '''[[wikipedia:relative clause|relative clause]]''' is a dependent clause which introduces additional information about another entity – for example, in ''he was the person I wanted to find'', ''I wanted to find'' is a relative clause of ''the person'' (it describes what kind of person). In this scenario, ''the person'' is termed the '''head''' or the '''antecedent''' of the relative clause. | * Broadly speaking, a '''[[wikipedia:relative clause|relative clause]]''' is a dependent clause which introduces additional information about another entity – for example, in ''he was the person I wanted to find'', ''I wanted to find'' is a relative clause of ''the person'' (it describes what kind of person). In this scenario, ''the person'' is termed the '''head''' or the '''antecedent''' of the relative clause. | ||
* A ''' | * A '''resumptive pronoun''' is one which refers to the antecedent. Such are hard to find in English, but they appear on occasion: ''a child who knows I love them'' (''them'' = ''a child''. Also note that ''a child'' is implicitly the subject of the resumptive clause – the one who knows). All Toaq resumptive clauses are formulated in a way that makes the resumptive pronoun {{t|hóa}} easy to use – for example, ‘a child who is big’ = {{t|deo säo <u>hóa</u>}} (literally ''child such that <u>it</u> is big''). Other pronouns may be used as antecedents since the [[antecedent pronoun]]s update: {{t|deo säo <u>hó</u>}}, where {{t|hó}} is the animate pronoun (he/she/they/it, for humans and animals performing roles thereof). | ||
* Consequently, ''' | * Consequently, '''resumptive pronoun ellipsis''' occurs when {{t|hóa}} is omitted for one reason or another. | ||
== The battle of auto-{{t|hóa}} == | == The battle of auto-{{t|hóa}} == | ||