A semantic type-driven account of verb-formation patterns in Panyjima

In this paper we propose a semantic type-driven account of verb-formation patterns in Panyjima. By offering an explicit theory for the construal of semantically simplex event descriptions from morphologically complex verbal stems, we flesh out intuitions dating back to Clark and Clark (1979) about t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Caudal, P., Dench, Alan, Roussarie, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/55426