Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives

Pitts, Walter

doi:10.1075/cilt.53.09pit

In:Diversity and Diachrony
David Sankoff
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 53] 1986
► pp. 73–82

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Contrastive use of verbal -z in Slava Narratives

Walter Pitts

Published online: 1 January 1986

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.53.09pit

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