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The usual standard with apes seems to be sign language, and none of them have been able to use it to the standard of human children once you peel back the wishful thinking of certain researchers. They can learn words, they can use words to get things, but they can't make the jump to grammar.
I actually don't know much about the grammar of ASL. Wikipedia says it has verb inflection, though. Has there been any actually well-documented and scientific experiments with it?
When I wrote this I was thinking about dogs using buttons that express "now" and "later". I have no idea how cherry-picked those videos are, but they seem somewhat convincing.