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Morphology in Northwest Caucasian languages

P. 2089–2108.
Lander Yu.

This article presents a survey of the morphology of highly polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian languages.

Language: English
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Keywords: Northwest Caucasian languagespolysynthesislanguages of the Caucasusmorphological typologyWest Caucasian languages

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Morphology
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
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