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Morphosyntax - rarity of phrasal affixation

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There was a 'citation needed' request dated 2012 on the claim that Kuuk Thaayorre was a rare example of a language displaying affixation to phrases.

Gaby (2006) claims that KT is 'one of a very few languages demonstrated', citing Dench and Evans (1998) and Anderson et al. (2006), but when I reviewed these two articles I didn't find evidence that this feature is rare, so I amended 'a rare example' to 'an example'. Happy to be corrected if I've missed something.

Dench, A. & Evans, N. 1988. Multiple case-marking in Australian Languages. Australian Journal of Linguistics. 8: 1-47

Anderson, S.R., Brown, L., Gaby, A., Lecarme, J. 2006. Life on the edge: there's morphology there after all. Lingue e Linguaggio. 1: 1-16.

--StephenJonesLinguistics (talk) 13:52, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]