Papers in Papuan Linguistics, Issue 1Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1991 - Linguistics |
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... marker ( see section 5.4 ) and as an adversative , temporal and conditional marker . All these functions are consistent with the core meaning of ' givenness ' ( Haiman 1978 ) . 5.2 INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS There are several interrogative ...
... marker ( see section 5.4 ) and as an adversative , temporal and conditional marker . All these functions are consistent with the core meaning of ' givenness ' ( Haiman 1978 ) . 5.2 INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS There are several interrogative ...
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... marker may be used on an indefinite or very generic NP ( 142 ) ; and if the head noun of a relative clause is indefinite , it may be left out altogether , thus leaving neither antecedent NP nor relative NP behind ( 143 ) . ( 142 ) Mua ...
... marker may be used on an indefinite or very generic NP ( 142 ) ; and if the head noun of a relative clause is indefinite , it may be left out altogether , thus leaving neither antecedent NP nor relative NP behind ( 143 ) . ( 142 ) Mua ...
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marker is reduplicated either in place of or in addition to the reduplication of the verb stem . The evidence presented in section 2.1 would indicate that this reduplication is from left to right . Examples are given in Table 19 . TABLE ...
marker is reduplicated either in place of or in addition to the reduplication of the verb stem . The evidence presented in section 2.1 would indicate that this reduplication is from left to right . Examples are given in Table 19 . TABLE ...
Contents
A quantitative phonology of Mai Brat 127 | 1 |
FIELDS | 29 |
LIISA JÄRVINEN | 57 |
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accusative pronouns adjectives affixes ämaqä Amele animacy aŋa aŋu aspect auŋ Austronesian languages bahasa basic be.there Blagar Brat clause clitics consonants context coreferential dative deixis demonstratives event example final verb fourth person free pronouns function Galela hiŋuä huruf i-qu indicate Indonesian interrogative Iqua irrealis kukŋä lexical Linguistics marked marker Mauwake meaning medial Menya modality mood morpheme morphological nain nasal noun phrase object prefixes occur Orya Pana Papua New Guinea Papuan languages perfective aspect person/number personal pronouns phonemes phonological position possessive postpositional phrase preceding predicate pronominal question word reduplicated form reduplication rule ruwi semantic semivowels sentence speaker speech stative stress suffix syllable syntactic Table tense Ternate Ternate language that-3SG third person singular Tom Dutton transitive verbs veŋ verb forms verb roots verb stem vowel change woŋuä yaqueqä Yawa σ σ