1. A recursive prefix in Neasu.
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Gerner, Matthias
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SUFFIXES & prefixes (Grammar) , *RECURSIVE functions - Abstract
Neasu (Tibeto-Burman: China) exhibits a prefix that derives new coordinators from existing ones by elaborately changing their subcategorial properties. Prefixed and unprefixed coordinators are distinguished by the complement they take (±verbal, ±CoP) and the possibility of being stacked up at least twice (±stackable). A prefixed coordinator has two of these three features switched from "−" to "+", when compared with its unprefixed counterpart and thus see its ability to occur as the head of recursive coordination structures increased. The prefix ao- is an operator of recursion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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