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PDF pending restorationSteever, Sanford B. – 1986
The morphological and lexical bases of Dravidian complementation are explored by proposing a series of rules that govern the distribution of finite predicates in the Dravidian sentence. The distribution of two verbs, "a-" ("become") and "en-" ("say"), is shown to be correlated with the distribution of finite predicates. These predicates are…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Dravidian Languages, Language Patterns
