How missionaries applied Portuguese and Latin descriptive categories in the classification and explanation of verb conjugations and paired verbs of Tamil
Tamil verb stems may be inclusive of a voice morpheme that encodes the degree of agency of the verb. Hence, using Paramasivam’s (1979) terminology, these kinds of verbs are paired verbs of which one is the affective and the other its effective counterpart. In the former, the action expressed by the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2021-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/article/id/5688/ |