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Functional sentence perspective in Inga

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Stephen H. Levinsohn
Stephen H. Levinsohn
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Summer Institute of Linguistics
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The Inga language relies on overt ‘case’ markers, rather than the relative position of, for example, the subject or object elements with respect to the verb, to distinguish the function of each. Since little restriction is thus placed on the order of elements by the syntax, a potential for a large number of permutations results.

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1975, pp. 13 - 37
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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