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As the size of data available for processing increases, new models of computation are needed. This motivates the study of data streams, which are sequences of information for which each element can be read only after the previous one. In this work we study two particular types o…

In this dissertation, I examine the combinatorial properties of valence-increasing suffixes (i.e., the causative and applicatives), and the semantic and syntactic effects of combining these suffixes with a verb stem in the Yoni dialect of Temne, a Southern Atlantic language of t…