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This quantity goals to make contributions to codifying the equipment and practices linguists use to get better language heritage, focussing predominantly on historic morphology. the quantity contains reports on a variety of languages: not just Indo-European, but additionally Austronesian, Sinitic, Mon-Khmer, Basque, one Papuan language relations, in addition to a couple of Australian households. Few collections are as cross-linguistic as Read more...
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She says that it is an “A(ctive) V(erbal) C(oncept) language”, meaning that it has nominative-accusative case marking morphology, rather than a splitergative system. Unfortunately, she presents no data to support this analysis and neither has von Brandenstein published anything to support this 3 Two hospitals, one on Bernier Island for men and one on Dorre Island for women, were established in 1908 ostensibly for sufferers of syphilis who were rounded up by a policeman, Constable Grey, throughout the Gascoyne-Ashburton region and transported there in neck chains via Carnarvon.
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