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=====Clitic/Affix Chaining===== | =====Clitic/Affix Chaining===== | ||
A phenomenon seen in Vadi nouns is ''clitic chaining'' or ''affix chaining'', whereby two or more clitics or affixes become conjoined to each other to convey more | A phenomenon seen in Vadi nouns is ''clitic chaining'' or ''affix chaining'', whereby two or more clitics or affixes become conjoined to each other to convey more granular syntactic 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: | ||
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