Kharia: a transparent language
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| Publication date | 2011 |
| Journal | Linguistics in Amsterdam |
| Volume | Issue number | 4 | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 75-95 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
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| Abstract | The transparency of the South-Munda language Kharia is measured by checking whether it exhibits the non-transparent properties listed in the introduction of this issue. It turns out that Kharia is transparent to a high degree. The most important non-transparent properties that are attested are apposition, discontinuity, some fusional morphology and phonological adaptations. Transparent properties of Kharia are the consistent use of clitics for phrase-marking (instead of head-marking by affixes) and the absence of functionally specialized lexeme classes. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/aclc/04/nr02/a04 |
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