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absolute adjectives affixes agreement American Sign Language Amsterdam analysis animacy approach Arabic argues argument structure Boas Cambridge characters Chomsky clause clitic cognitive collocational restrictions comparative complement complex compounds constraints constructions contact edges context contrast corpus creole creole languages degree Deixis discourse discussion English event example fact foot foot-level forms frequency function gender gradable adjectives grammar guage incorporation Infl inflectional interpretation ISBN John Benjamins Kahane lexemes lexical linguistic Mapudungun meaning modifiers morphemes morphology Nahuatl Nanti noun noun incorporation object patterns PFT/MON phonetic phonological phrase PNG features postverbal predict present preterite processes pronouns properties result role scale semantic sentences Sesotho sign languages sociolinguistic Southern Tiwa Spanish speakers speech standard suffix syllables syntactic syntax tense thematic roles theory tion tree typology unaccusative verbs University Press variability variants verb vowel word order