A diachronic pathway from nominal to verbal inflection: Evidence from Australian languages. (2012). Word Structure. https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/word.2026.0272
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This paper calls attention to a diachronic pathway that results in verbal inflections (for mood, aspect, tense, or polarity) being cognate with nominal inflections (especially case). It is illustrated with data from Australian languages, whose typological…

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