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Pulaar verbal extensions and phonologically driven affix order

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Yearbook of Morphology 2005

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I would like to thank Sharon Inkelas, Lynn Nichols, Larry Hyman, Andrew Garrett, Juliette Blevins, Johanna Nichols, Rebecca Cover, Stefan Elders, Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum, and three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. This research was funded in part by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

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Paster, M. (2005). Pulaar verbal extensions and phonologically driven affix order. In: Booij, G., Van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 2005. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4066-0_6

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