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Sequence and Co-Occurrence of Yoruba Auxiliary Verbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Lawrence O. Adéwọlé
Lawrence O. Adéwọlé*
Affiliation:
Ọbáfẹ́mi Awólọ́wọ̀ University
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Just as in several other languages of the world, the Yoruba auxiliary verbs can be stacked, that is, there can be more than one auxiliary verb in a structure. In this paper, we shall propose an analysis, within the framework of GPSG, which accounts for the distribution of the Yoruba auxiliary verbs and compare our analysis with some previous ones.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 1989 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association. 1989

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