Dual Structure of Dibabawon Verbal Clauses

Abstract

For the analysis of linguistic structures, Robert Longacre suggests the 'rejection of conventional immediate constituent analysis along with its reluctance to recognize more than two constituents on the same level of cutting', and recommends in its place 'the development of a string constituent analysis in which grammatical strings are discovered and described. . . and in which constituent substitution points within the strings are likewise discovered and described. ,