The AMAR mechanism: nominal expressions in the Bantu languages are shaped by apposition and reintegration

Nominal expressions in the Bantu languages have extraordinary typological characteristics. Their word order patterns are extremely diverse and some of the attested patterns are crosslinguistically very rare, or even unique. The same diversity can be found in the number of agreement marker paradigms....

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Main Author: Van de Velde Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-05-01
Series:Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2020-0132