Lynch, John D. (2001) Article accretion and article creation in Southern Oceanic. Oceanic Linguistics, 40 (2). pp. 224-246. ISSN 0029-8115
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Very few Southern Oceanic languages retain the Proto-Oceanic articles as articles per se. Some have lost them altogether. In many others, they seem to have developed as proclitics or prefixes that are today only marginally productive. On the other hand, some of the languages in this subgroup have created new articles or article-like prefixes. I will argue that the loss of the articles, or the marginalizing of an erstwhile productive system of prefixes, may have been a quite recent phenomenon, and may thus represent parallel developments rather than shared innovations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > Pacific Languages Unit |
| Depositing User: | Ms Shalni Sanjana |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Aug 2001 22:30 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2012 22:30 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/5215 |
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