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Word order in Toposa: An aspect of multiple feature-checking

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Sudan, Toposa is highly inflectional and derivational, with a basic VSO word order. This 213-page book, both data-oriented and theoretical, is valuable for students of syntactic theory, language typology and discourse.