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Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2024

[Non-verbal predication in] Oceanic languages

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Oceanic languages, much like the rest of Austronesian, show a propensity to do without any copula when construing their non-verbal predicates. Most of their word classes (adjectives, nouns, pronouns, numerals, prepositions, locatives…) are capable of heading a predicate-a property known as omnipredicativity. Many classes can even inflect for Tense-Aspect-Mood, with no need to be converted into a verb. The present overview focuses on Mwotlap (Vanuatu), a radical example of these grammatical tendencies; and other Oceanic languages are cited whenever they show different structures. Despite the omnipredicative pattern pervasive in the family, some languages have innovated copulas, or other verbal strategies, to encode certain types of non-verbal predicates.
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halshs-04383439 , version 1 (09-01-2024)

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Alexandre François. [Non-verbal predication in] Oceanic languages. Denis Creissels; Pier Marco Bertinetto; Luca Ciucci. Non-verbal predication: A typological survey, DeGruyter, In press, Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics. ⟨halshs-04383439⟩
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