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Preverbs Let me discuss more briefly another area of similarity between Kutenai and Algonquian , discussed in greater detail in Dryer ( 1999 ) . Algonquian languages have a set of words , commonly called preverbs , which precede the ...
Preverbs Let me discuss more briefly another area of similarity between Kutenai and Algonquian , discussed in greater detail in Dryer ( 1999 ) . Algonquian languages have a set of words , commonly called preverbs , which precede the ...
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Apart from their syntactic similarities , preverbs in Kutenai and Algonquian cover a similar range of meanings , a range that is quite unlike any word class in European ( or most other ) languages in that they have meanings that ...
Apart from their syntactic similarities , preverbs in Kutenai and Algonquian cover a similar range of meanings , a range that is quite unlike any word class in European ( or most other ) languages in that they have meanings that ...
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preverb ( or the verb if there is no preverb ) . Many of them are also characterized by bearing a suffix that marks them as preverbs , - ( i ) ( ? ) ł in Kutenai , -i ( for example ) in Malecite - Passmaquoddy .
preverb ( or the verb if there is no preverb ) . Many of them are also characterized by bearing a suffix that marks them as preverbs , - ( i ) ( ? ) ł in Kutenai , -i ( for example ) in Malecite - Passmaquoddy .
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