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A specific form of agglugination seen in Vadi nouns is '' | 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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