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The document discusses differences between habitual and nonhabitual aspects in some languages compared to British English (BE). BE regularly deletes possessive morphemes like 'S when word order already specifies possession, unlike Standard American English (SAE) which maintains the morpheme.

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Parte 12

The document discusses differences between habitual and nonhabitual aspects in some languages compared to British English (BE). BE regularly deletes possessive morphemes like 'S when word order already specifies possession, unlike Standard American English (SAE) which maintains the morpheme.

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The syntactic Another regular rule in

distinction between BE deletes the


habitual aspect and possessive morpheme
nonhabitual occurs in ´S whenever possession
languages other than is redundantly specified
BE but not in SAE. by Word order.

SAE BE
That is John’s house. That John house.
That is your house. That you house.
That house is John’s. That house John’s.

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