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Argument Structure and Locus of Affect in the Maasai External Possession Construction

Domain:

natural language processing
Creator:
Dor
Publisher:
Lin
Host:
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Syntax and Semantics in Africa (1997)

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doi.org

Languages

Maasai

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