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Article Dans Une Revue NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia Année : 2023

The road to opacity: Reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *-akin in northern Vanuatu

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This paper provides a systematic overview of the modern reflexes of the Proto-Oceanic applicative suffix *-akin in the languages of northern Vanuatu. Our three focal languages are Hiw, Vurës, and Mwotlap, but data from neighboring languages are also used to demonstrate the historical development of *-akin in the area. We describe five different development paths of *-akin, namely (1) as a (semi-)productive applicative suffix; (2) as a non-productive suffix attaching to a verb, with recognizable yet irregular semantics; (3) as a non-productive suffix potentially linked to another root, yet with opaque semantics; (4) as a vestigial syllable in certain words, with no language-internal evidence of any suffixation process; and (5) as a preposition, through a process of degrammaticalization or debonding.
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halshs-04331907 , version 1 (08-12-2023)

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Daniel Krauße, Alexandre François. The road to opacity: Reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *-akin in northern Vanuatu. NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia, 2023, Applicatives in Austronesian languages, 74, pp.41-82. ⟨10.15026/0002000018⟩. ⟨halshs-04331907⟩
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