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In Toqabaqita and some other Oceanic languages the reflexes of Proto-Oceanic *sapa "what?, which?" are used to inquire about parts of whole and/or about kinship relations; for example, Toqabaqita tafa "which part of person's or animal's body?". While these interrogative functions may be unusual cross-linguistically outside of Oceanic, in Oceanic they follow naturally from a grammatical property of Proto-Oceanic, specifically the use of one type of attributive possessive construction to encode inalienable-possession relations.
Oceanic Linguistics – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 3, 2007
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