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The Category of Postverbal Particles in Naxi and Grammaticalization

The Category of Postverbal Particles in Naxi and Grammaticalization Melody Ya-Yin Chang Yuxi Normal University Naxi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the southwest of China. The syntactic categories of postverbal particles in Naxi are dual: both functional and lexical at the same time. On the one hand, they functions like inflectional categories since inflectional […]

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