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Word-internal modification: The case of the Persian comparative marker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2018

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto Mississauga

Abstract

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© Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2018 

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Jonathan Bobaljik and Alec Marantz for questions and discussions that inspired me to write this squib. Thanks also to audiences at the University of Toronto and University of Manitoba and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier versions. All errors are mine.

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