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Conlangery 140: Word Classes with William Croft
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The Uninfected Copula in Mandarin and Cantonese
The uninfected copula is a third morpheme that doesn't have any inflections on it. In recent times in Mandarin and Cantonese, an intensifier has been used to replace the word "copula" The morphemes usually come from pronouns, demonstratives or third person singular pronouns.
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