Verbal synthesis in the Guaporé-Mamoré linguistic area: a contact feature?

In their discussion of the linguistic area Guaporé-Mamoré (eastern Bolivia and Rondônia) Crevels and Van der Voort (2008) propose ‘polysynthetic morphology’ as one of the structural features shared by most languages in the area. In their approach the feature is regarded as binary (present versus abs...

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Main Author: Rik van Gijn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dartmouth College Library 2015-01-01
Series:Linguistic Discovery
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.464