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... the new clusters, as in 21 d, but cannot affect stems followed by a pronominal suffix because of the continued intervening presence of the old short suffixal vowels, or their degrammaticized reflexes, in original word-internal positions.
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It seems more likely that the "vowel-final target" motivation conspired with an second motivation — possibly simply a tendency to make words bulkier by accruing a "degrammaticized" augment. Synchronically, the nominative suffix in Kayardild ...
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This markedness relation together with a preference for 'degrammaticizing' constructional schemas for causal clause combining in conversation conspire to favor only one of the intonational and sequential patterns with because, thus ...
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Otherwise this may be a further argument for the Rooth-von Fintel program of degrammaticizing the phenomena of focus-sensitivity.
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