| Lemma | modifier |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Inkelas (2004) |
| Titolo | NIMBORAN POSITION CLASS MORPHOLOGY |
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| Citazioni | [...] the modifier is an (internally complex) constituent of its own, rather than a string of suffixes attached to the root. I [...] treat the modifier as a morphological constituent in its own right, with its own internal organization, from which the root is excluded. Nimboran verbs have a simple prosodic structure, consisting of two portions for the purposes of phonological rules. One portion contain the root, and the other, all post-root morphemes [May, K., May, W., 1981, “Nimboran Phonology Revisited”, 'Irian' 9, 9-32, p. 10]. I shall refer to these two constituents as the "stem" and the "modifier", respectively. |