Compounding and the structure of the Tani lexicon

Compounding in Tani appears to have been a process of disyllabification, where monosyllabic forms in Proto-Tani have been lexicalised as compounds. This has resulted in a interesting division in the Tani languages, with nouns and adjectives on the one hand being closely aligned, and verbs on the oth...

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Main Author: Post, Mark
Other Authors: La Trobe University
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/177944
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English