Summary: | The verb phrase in Mising is often polymorphemic in shape, its semantic role made operational by a process of agglutination of suffixes. While forms with two to four suffixes are quite frequent, (e.g. gi+len+to > g ilento, g i+len+ bo+ to > g ilenboto, g i+len+gor+to > g ilengorto, gi+len+bo+gor+to > gilenbogorto), the realisation of a form like gilenbogorkinma:milo:sinda, with the addition of eight suffixes to the root gi+,2 is a distinct possibility in appropriate linguistic situations.
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