The morphology of tense and aspect in Nama, a Papuan language of southern New Guinea
This paper describes the complex tense and aspect morphology in Nama, a previously undocumented Papuan language of southern New Guinea. Tense/aspect suffixes followed by agent/actor referencing suffixes occur in combination with one of two sets of patient referencing prefixes. Most of the tense/aspe...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015-02-01
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| Series: | Open Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opli.2014.1.issue-1/opli-2014-0011/opli-2014-0011.xml?format=INT |