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understand the stable sum of leading features connected with each
other, the presence or absence of one sign causes the presence or
absence of the other one or other ones. In connection with this definition
of the type of the language another definition arises.
As we have already spoken there could be features in the language
structure, which are not considered to be the leading ones; nevertheless
these features form some stable sum of peculiarities of the language. In
the structure of the English language one can find features concerning
the other type of language structure, for example we find the agreement
of the demonstrative pronoun with the noun in number:
Dostları ilə paylaş: