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*definite articles in genitive phrases: a genitive phrase of the form X DEF.GEN Y.GEN is implied to be definite (cf. Hebrew and Irish). On the other hand, Modern Albionian usually requires X to take the definite article as well.

*The use of ''-li'' on verbs for interrogatives: ''znạṡ-li?'' 'dost thou know? kennst du?' This still survives as a way to mark conditional clauses in modern formal language.

*''-mo'' is sometimes used instead of ''-m'' for dative (but not instrumental) singular masculine and neuter adjectives and pronouns: ''~~spiêweite~~ jemo ~~piêseṅ nowả~~'' 'sing unto him a new song', ''~~prechodnẻmo~~'' 'fleeting'. ''-mo'' is still found in literary poetry but it doesn't consistently correspond to the Proto-Slavic dative.

*''-mo'' is sometimes used instead of ''-m'' for dative (but not instrumental) singular masculine and neuter adjectives and pronouns: ''spiewejte jemo pieseň nowa'' 'sing unto him a new song', ''prechodnejmo'' 'fleeting'. ''-mo'' is still found in literary poetry but it doesn't consistently correspond to the Proto-Slavic dative.

*Adjectives may come before nouns.

*Early Modern Albionian disallowed morphological "double negatives":

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 *definite articles in genitive phrases: a genitive phrase of the form X DEF.GEN Y.GEN is implied to be definite (cf. Hebrew and Irish). On the other hand, Modern Albionian usually requires X to take the definite article as well.
 *The use of ''-li'' on verbs for interrogatives: ''znạṡ-li?'' 'dost thou know? kennst du?' This still survives as a way to mark conditional clauses in modern formal language.
-*''-mo'' is sometimes used instead of ''-m''  for dative (but not instrumental) singular masculine and neuter adjectives and pronouns: ''spiêweite jemo piêseṅ nowả'' 'sing unto him a new song', ''prechodnẻmo'' 'fleeting'. ''-mo'' is still found in literary poetry but it doesn't consistently correspond to the Proto-Slavic dative.
+*''-mo'' is sometimes used instead of ''-m''  for dative (but not instrumental) singular masculine and neuter adjectives and pronouns: ''spiewejte jemo pieseň nowa'' 'sing unto him a new song', ''prechodnejmo'' 'fleeting'. ''-mo'' is still found in literary poetry but it doesn't consistently correspond to the Proto-Slavic dative. <!-- I chose to change mu to mo to make it sound like Archaic Biblical Hebrew -ėmo -->
 *Adjectives may come before nouns.
 *Early Modern Albionian disallowed morphological "double negatives":