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SEMANTIC VERB CLASSES AND ABSTRACT FINALS PETER DENNY University of Western Ontario It is more than ten years now since I began trying to decipher the meanings of the abstract finals ( AF ) , one of which appears as the last morpheme in ...
SEMANTIC VERB CLASSES AND ABSTRACT FINALS PETER DENNY University of Western Ontario It is more than ten years now since I began trying to decipher the meanings of the abstract finals ( AF ) , one of which appears as the last morpheme in ...
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The analysis of the seventh and eighth forms is less certain : they are probably based on the unattested TA final * -ēyiht ... The abstract finals we will de- scribe are therefore usually derivational morphemes lying outside speaker ...
The analysis of the seventh and eighth forms is less certain : they are probably based on the unattested TA final * -ēyiht ... The abstract finals we will de- scribe are therefore usually derivational morphemes lying outside speaker ...
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It is important to recognize that every verb has a value on each of the three dimensions even though the abstract final ( AF ) may only express one of them . Thus is - imäht / am ( W ) ' he smells it ' is morphologically marked by TI AF ...
It is important to recognize that every verb has a value on each of the three dimensions even though the abstract final ( AF ) may only express one of them . Thus is - imäht / am ( W ) ' he smells it ' is morphologically marked by TI AF ...
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