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-=====Clitic/Affix Chaining=====
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-A specific form of agglugination seen in Vadi nouns is ''clitic chaining'' or ''affix chaining'', whereby two or more clitics or affixes become conjoined to each other.  Unlike typical agglugination, clitic/affix chaining is used specifically to convey more granular theta-role information of the host noun.  This is seen most often in possessive phrases, whereby the possessor noun undergoes clitic/affix chaining to specify the semantic role of its head, and sometimes to indicate tense, as in the third sentence:
+A specific form of agglugination seen in Vadi nouns is ''case chaining'', whereby two or more markers become conjoined to each other.  This process is used to convey more granular theta-role information of the host noun.  This is seen most often in possessive phrases, whereby the possessor noun undergoes clitic/affix chaining to specify the semantic role of its head, and oftentimes to indicate tense, as in the third sentence:
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