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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-17 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, includi
Multi-verb constructions in Eastern Indonesia
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Authors: Volker Unterladstetter
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Language Science Press

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Constructions with multiple verbal elements have posed a long-standing challenge to linguistic analysis. Most studies of verb serialisation have been confined t
Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-16 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Verbal Pseudo-Coordination (as in English ‘go and get’) has been described for a number of individual languages, but this is the first edited volume to emph
The Acquisition of Creole Languages
Language: en
Pages: 245
Authors: Dany Adone
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The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.
A Grammar of Nungon
Language: en
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Authors: Hannah Sarvasy
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
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A Grammar of Nungon is the most comprehensive modern reference grammar of a language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Nungon is a previously-undescribed Finisterr