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Gender and number in: Definite articles.

Indefinite articles.

Object pronouns.

Adjectives.

Demonstratives.

Possessive pronouns.

Demonstratives.

Distinctions among three series represented by:

Pronominalization: Subject pronouns.

Pronoun objects of prepositions.

Pronoun objects of verbs (direct and indirect).

Possessive pronouns.

Prepositions appropriate with assorted verbs and adjectives.

Contractions.

It should be emphasized that the above example of 'fine specification' is to be taken seriously only with regard to its size, and not in its details, even for Portuguese. For other languages, a comparable specification of major grammar points might vary greatly in its content, but probably somewhat less in its length.

The output of the fine specification function may be pictured as a three-dimensional matrix: