Noun-phrase conjunction in Austronesian languages

sections present the main results of our study: Section 2 discusses the geo- graphic distribution of specifi c sociative causative markers, with a particu- larly high density in

In realis condition clauses, ta and ti mark some implicative relation between the frame clause (i.e. the protasis marked by an epistemic marker esa ‘maybe’) and the

In relative clauses (ad-nominal specifiers) and in complement clauses, the use of former coordinators reanalysed as subordinators often arises from the expression of some

Table 1 shows that standard AND -coordination, WITH -coordination, and inclusory constructions may be marked by distinct morphemes and distinct constructions (as in Atayal,

(i) The asymmetrical access of generic NPs to subject and object functions tends to occur in languages without indefinite articles, where referential differences tend to be marked in

Different paths of development starting out from motion verbs will be presented below, some well attested elsewhere, others more speci fi c to Oceanic languages, such as the

1 The reasons for reconstructing an initial consonant *w include: (a) the accretion of /w-/ to certain roots in Nume (§2.2.2); (b) the existence in Mwotlap of an article-like

In Tîrî (Osumi 1995), there are traces of a former appositive inclusory construction (with a first person dual or plural pronoun) without any conjunctive marker, but the