I don't really know anything about the following, but Wikipedia has a
little...
On Apr 30, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Eldin Raigmore wrote:
> (1) What are verb-classifiers?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Southern_Athabascan_grammar#Classificatory_Verbs>
I'm not sure if this is what you're asking about.
>
> (2) What are preverbs?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preverb>
>
> (3) How, if at all, are either verb-classifiers or preverbs,
> related to light verbs?
I'd like to know that too. (I love anything having to do with
grammaticalization and the progression from independent words into
bound morphemes.)
>
> (1a) What else can anyone tell us about verb-classifiers?
>
> (2a) What else can anyone tell us about preverbs?
>
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> Thanks.
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> eldin