A common Korean and Japanese copula
This paper argues that a number of grammatical morphemes in Korean and Japanese are cognate and reflect two alternating copula roots: proto-Korean-Japanese <em>*t-~*n-</em>. First, K <em>ulo</em> 'noun particle' and J <em>to</em> 'copula; particle&#...
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
2001
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