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<p>European languages in that it is the <a href="page.php?w=head_%28linguistics%29">head</a> (modified) noun rather than the dependent (modifying) noun which is <a href="page.php?w=Markedness">marked</a>.  However, in Semitic languages with <a href="page.php?w=grammatical_case">grammatical case</a>, such as <a href="page.php?w=Classical_Arabic">Classical Arabic</a>, the modifying noun in a genitive construction is placed in the <a href="page.php?w=genitive_case">genitive case</a> in addition to marking the head noun with the construct state (compare,</p><p>
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