Complex nuclei in Oceanic languages: contribution to an areal typology.

Our data show that Serbian is a particularly interesting case, since it is structurally Satellite-framed, but behaves like Verb-framed languages in that speakers do not always

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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

Can all the different constructions I presented here – object omission (Section 2), object incorporation (Section 3), object peripherization (Section 4), middle constructions

On Timor, there are four TAP languages: Bunaq straddling the border between Indonesian West Timor and independent East Timor, and Makasae, Makalero and Fataluku occupying

Complex predicates involving two activity verbs as in (49) may express immediate sequence~consequence, coincidence and sometimes purpose when context allows (although the

In what follows, the aggregation is formally defined as an opération on languages and the closure of the four families in the Chomsky hierarchy under this opération is investigated

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