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... sentences that are equative . These are sentences that lack a verbal predicate and are instead composed of two NPs ; one supplying the lexical property or identity being predicated , the other a subject NP . In affirma- tive contexts ...
... sentences that are equative . These are sentences that lack a verbal predicate and are instead composed of two NPs ; one supplying the lexical property or identity being predicated , the other a subject NP . In affirma- tive contexts ...
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... sentences with mayêw permit the omission of subject NPs to mirror those in sentences with inflected verb stems . But this is not the case . First , we saw that the final glide on mayêw does not signal a 0 or 3rd person subject . If ...
... sentences with mayêw permit the omission of subject NPs to mirror those in sentences with inflected verb stems . But this is not the case . First , we saw that the final glide on mayêw does not signal a 0 or 3rd person subject . If ...
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... sentences with mayêw obligatorily order the predicate after the subject , and here verbal predicates are disallowed altogether . That is , mayêw can only negate sentences with a nominal pred- icate or identifier . We propose that these ...
... sentences with mayêw obligatorily order the predicate after the subject , and here verbal predicates are disallowed altogether . That is , mayêw can only negate sentences with a nominal pred- icate or identifier . We propose that these ...
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Marshall J Becker | 23 |
MariePierre Bousquet | 53 |
Phil Branigan Julie Brittain Carrie Dyck | 75 |
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