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Syntactic differences between adjectives and relative words in Setswana and isiZulu

Kgomotso Ambitious ThelediDepartment of African Languages, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 18-24 | Published online: 14 May 2023

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