morfema modal medial
English translation: medial modal morpheme
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| 4 | medial modal morpheme |
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| 4 | intervening modal morpheme OR: infixed m.m. OR: m.m. in medial position |
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medial modal morpheme Explanation: .. |
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intervening modal morpheme OR: infixed m.m. OR: m.m. in medial position Explanation: Nothing wrong with "medial modal morpheme," except that it sounds a little confusing. ... the pronominal elements are infixed between the modal affix and the stem: ... The present passive of trans. verbs is obtained by adding the morpheme -i ... www.iranica.com/newsite/articles/v1f9/v1f9a124.html means of a **modal morpheme**. In many instances this element is. a separate modal verb, as in (6) from Dutch (W. Germanic), ... www.u.arizona.edu/~fdehaan/papers/evid1.pdf **The second modal morpheme in the auxiliary** is the conditional 'if', and it involves the morpheme ba., which you see illustrated in the first half of (65b) ... www.ehu.es/grammar/gram42.htm ... the primary prefix sometimes precedes, some- times follows, and sometimes is **infixed within the modal morpheme**. There are two primary prefix morphemes, ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7071(196104)27%3A2%3C114%3ASMVOP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V |
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