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accusative ADJ+N adjectives analysis antipassive assigned basic Chapter claim co-occurrence code-switching compensatory lengthening consonant constraints constructions contrast coördination derived diachronic dialect discussion distinction downstep Dyirbal English ergative evidence examples fact function GEN+N grammar Greek hierarchy implicational inflection intransitive intransitive verbs involve John language Latin lexical linguistic logical form markedness marking meaning modal monophthongization morphemes morphological N+ADJ N+GEN nasal nominative Note noun NP's NPrel occur paper passive patterns phonetic phonological position possible Postnom-WO-S predictions PREP prepositions present Press problems pronominal RC's reference relative clauses relative pronoun relativization restricting clause rules semantic sentence sequence sociolinguistics Spanish speakers speech strategy stress structure suffix surface syllable synchronic syntactic syntactic pivot syntax tense theory tion tone tone terracing transitive underlying University variation verb vowel WFR's word order