On the status of intermediate form classes: Words, clitics, and affixes in Smalgyax (Coast Tsimshian)

Linguistic Typology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 383-415

  Stebbins, Tonya ^a  

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Author keywords

Affix; Clitic; Parts of speech; Polysynthesis; Sm'algyax; Tsimshianic; Word

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248716435     PISSN: 14300532     EISSN: 1613415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/lity.2003.019     Document Type: Review

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