Verbal aspect and personal pronouns: The history of aorist markers in north Vanuatu
François Alexandre. 2009. .
BOOKPART, (2009 ) - PUBLISHEDVERSION - English (en-GB)
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HAL CCSD, Canberra: Australian National University
Subject
verbal aspect, personal pronouns, aorist, Vanuatu, Banks and Torres, [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics
Domains
Linguistique, Sciences Sociales, Sciences humaines
Description
Among the seventeen languages spoken in the Banks and Torres groups of north Vanuatu, eleven share a TAM category whose functions include sequential, generic, subjunctive, prospective and imperfective. This aspect, labeled here “aorist”, also displays cross-linguistic formal similarities: everywhere, the aorist marker shows allomorphic variation depending on the person of the subject. After comparing the eleven languages concerned, I propose to reconstruct their protosystem as a set of four portmanteau proclitics {*gu–*u–*ni–*(k)a} combining aspect and person.
Creators
François, Alexandre
Contributors
Langues et civilisations à tradition orale (LACITO) ; Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3-Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Andrew Pawley & Alexander Adelaar
Sources
Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: A festschrift for Bob Blust, Andrew Pawley & Alexander Adelaar. Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: A festschrift for Bob Blust, Canberra: Australian National University, pp.179-195, 2009, Pacific Linguistics
