(What) do noun class markers mean?

Contini-Morava, Ellen

doi:10.1075/sfsl.48.04con

In:Signal, Meaning, and Message: Perspectives on sign-based linguistics
Edited by Wallis Reid, Ricardo Otheguy and Nancy Stern
[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics 48] 2002
► pp. 3–64

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(What) do noun class markers mean?

Ellen Contini-Morava

Published online: 26 July 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/sfsl.48.04con

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