Kaufman (1994–2007) reconstructs three different protoZapotec causative morphemes: *(s)se, *o, and *k. Reflexes of all three are found in the modern Northern Zapotec language of Macuiltianguis Zapotec (MacZ). However, in MacZ they are not all valency increasing morphemes associated with causative… read more
In this paper, the morphology, syntax, semantics, and diachrony of expressions liketwenty-odd are described, based on the results of a corpus study which considers data from the British National Corpus, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Google. The -odd suffix appears most frequently with twenty,… read more