Argument structure and the typology of causatives in Kinyarwanda : explaining the causative-instrumental syncretism
In the Bantu language Kinyarwanda, the morpheme –ish can be used to mark both causation and the instrumental applicative. This report pro- poses an explanation for this causative-instrumental syncretism, arguing that both causation and the introduction of an instrument are—at their core—two outgrowt...
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2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/24090 |