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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"auxiliary constructions"”.
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Evidence from innovation: Reconstructing disharmonic headedness for Proto-Indo-European
… of my predecessors is looking at the various auxiliary constructions innovated across the Indo-European (IE) daughter languages instead of focusing exclusively on reconstructible lexical verbs. This approach allows me to more accurately triangulate the location of inflection in the syntax …
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Grammar and grammaticalization in Manda: An analysis of the wider TAM domain in a Tanzanian Bantu language
… Manda data has been compared to Proto-Bantu reconstructions and cross-Bantu as well as cross-linguistic generalizations on functional and formal change. The study shows that Manda in many ways adheres to the general traits of an (Eastern) Bantu language. Fundamentally, the language is highly …