On the Integration of Dative Adjuncts into Event Structures in Yapa Languages
Warlpiri and Warlmanpa (Ngumpin-Yapa languages of Australia) exhibit a complex predicate construction in which a class of preverbs introduces a single argument that is not shared by the argument structure of the inflecting verb, nor is there necessarily any shared event structure. This is problemati...
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MDPI AG
2021-08-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/3/136 |