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John Lynch university of the south pacific 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 pre²xes that are today only marginally productive. On the other hand, some of the languages in this subgroup have created new articles or article-like pre²xes. I will argue that the loss of the articles, or the marginalizing of an erstwhile productive system of pre²xes, may have been a quite recent phenomenon, and may thus represent parallel developments rather than shared innovations. 1. INTRODUCTION. Proto-Oceanic seems to have had a number of articles. The following are mentioned in Lynch, Ross, and Crowley (to appear, chap. 4), apart from *dri, which is discussed in 2.2.2: (1) *e, *i *qa *dri *na, *a *ta personal (*e phrase-initial? *i phrase-internal?) personal feminine common nonhuman (no de²nitive allomorphic statement) common nonhuman Following Crowley (1985), I assume that other nouns--generally those with human nonpersonal or animate reference--were zero-marked in Proto-Oceanic. Very few languages in Southern Oceania (Vanuatu and New Caledonia) retain these articles as free-standing articles. Many New Caledonian languages have a number of articles, but most of
Oceanic Linguistics – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Jan 12, 2001
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