Instability in Stability: Therapeutic and Elaborative Periphrasis in the Dalabon Pronominal Prefix Paradigm

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Evans, Nicholas

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British Academy and Oxford University Press

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Periphrasis has a striking role in the Australian (non-Pama-Nyungan) language Dalabon, where it helps to maintain the paradigm structure, and at the same time reshapes the paradigm by adding new categories. The key area concerns divalent prefixal marking

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Periphrasis: The Role of Syntax and Morphology in Paradigms

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2037-12-31