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The hidden compound verbs of Modo (SBB, South Sudan)

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natural language processing

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paper
Creator:
Boy
Editor:
LanIneLee J. Pratchett
Publisher:
CCSDHum
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International audience The aim of the present paper is to show that Modo reveals traces of a historical process of verb compounding that is not any more productive in the present-day language but may still be tentatively detected by a careful examination of the relations between the phonological constitution and the semantics of some verbs.

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shs.hal.science

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African linguisticsVerb compounding[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess

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