Comitative Constructions in Reefs–Santa Cruz

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

OCEANIC LINGUISTICS Pub Date : 2023-03-22 DOI:10.1353/ol.2023.0002

Åshild Næss, V. Alfarano, Brenda H. Boerger, Anders Vaa

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Abstract:This paper describes and compares comitative constructions across the Reefs–Santa Cruz languages Äiwoo, Engdewu, Nalögo, and Natügu. Each of these languages shows a complex array of constructions, with considerable variation across languages both in the forms used, in which constructions are used for genuine comitative versus depictive constructions (as in I climbed with the basket, where I am climbing but the basket is not), and in which additional functions the different constructions can be extended to. At the same time, there are commonalities across the four languages, as would be expected from a low-level Oceanic subgroup such as Reefs–Santa Cruz; but the commonalities are complex and crosscut constructions and language groupings. Our historical account of this situation takes as its starting point the Proto-Oceanic comitative forms *ma, *ma-i, and *aki[ni] and assumes different grammaticalization paths and functional extensions across the languages, in particular, in Äiwoo, on the one hand, and the Santa Cruz languages, on the other. We thus contribute to disentangling the complex historical relationships within this language group, which has only fairly recently been recognized as Oceanic.

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摘要：本文描述并比较了Reefs-Santa Cruz语言中的滑稽结构，如iwoo语、Engdewu语、Nalögo语和Natügu语。这些语言中的每一种都显示出一系列复杂的结构，不同语言在使用的形式上都有相当大的差异，其中结构用于真正的滑稽结构和描述性结构（如我带着篮子爬，我在爬，但篮子没有），以及不同结构可以扩展到的附加功能，这四种语言都有共性，正如人们从低级别的海洋亚组（如Reefs–Santa Cruz）所预期的那样；但共性是复杂的横切结构和语言分组。我们对这种情况的历史描述以原始海洋语的注释形式*ma、*ma-i和*aki[ni]为出发点，并假设不同语言之间存在不同的语法化路径和功能扩展，特别是在伊沃语和圣克鲁斯语中。因此，我们有助于解开这个语言群中复杂的历史关系，这个语言群直到最近才被公认为海洋语。

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OCEANIC LINGUISTICS LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-

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期刊介绍： Oceanic Linguistics is the only journal devoted exclusively to the study of the indigenous languages of the Oceanic area and parts of Southeast Asia. The thousand-odd languages within the scope of the journal are the aboriginal languages of Australia, the Papuan languages of New Guinea, and the languages of the Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) family. Articles in Oceanic Linguistics cover issues of linguistic theory that pertain to languages of the area, report research on historical relations, or furnish new information about inadequately described languages.