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Sep 28, 2007 - About Haitian Creole, Lefebvre (1998: 9) defines relexification as. âa process of vocabulary substitution in which the only information adopted.
Parallel meanings, divergent forms in the north Vanuatu Sprachbund Diffusion or genetic inheritance?
Linguistic areas “A linguistic area is generally taken to be a geographically delimited area including languages from two or more language families, sharing significant traits.” [Dixon 2001]
“The central feature of a linguistic area is the existence of structural similarities shared among languages of a geographical area, where usually some of the languages are genetically unrelated or at least are not all close relatives.” [Campbell 2006] স
Most areal studies involve distinct language families: Balkans, Mesoamerica, Ethiopia, SE Asia, India, Siberia...
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Another type:
Contact situations involving languages which are genetically closely related. e.g. Heeringa et al. 2000 for Germanic lgs; Chappell 2001 for Sinitic lgs…
Structural similarities < common ancestor or diffusion?
28 September 2007 — ALT7, Paris
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This case study:
the 17 languages of north Vanuatu. 2
Torres Is. Banks Is.
Santo
Maewo Ambae
Pentecost
Malekula
Efate
Tanna
Hiw
The 17 languages of north Vanuatu
LoToga
tȪ׀ƥ
Negative existential
tatȪ׀ȳ Löyöp
mȳp
Lehali
tȳt׀ȳ
taƒȳ׀ȳh
Volow
Close genetic relationship Austronesian > Oceanic > North-Central Vanuatu [Clark 1985] > North Vanuatu [François 2005]
Mwotlap
Lemerig
Mota
Veraa
Negative existential
Vurës Nume
Olrat
Modern vehicular language: Bislama (Eng-lexifier pidgin)
'The women lit fires, while the men went to the gardens.' ...... math 2007, 2012, 2015); and the criteria that define, for example, nouns or adjectives in ..... The general formula for calculating a language's multifunctionality score f is given in (
future monographs in publishable form â even in situations where most linguists ... Alex François â Review essay: Four languages of Malekula by Terry Crowley. 2 .... me to do my reviewer's duty and concentrate now on their imperfections. ..... t
of the world: see, inter alia, the papers in Braunmüller & House (2009), and also ...... assets rather than problems, as they potentially form a protective shield for each ...... Austronesian Linguistics, Part 2 ed. by Ray Harlow & Robin Hooper, ...
They live on in the secret societies where their presence is ..... forms, (2. 0. ) entails a historical claim that all the forms are cognate, and that they ... Based on regular correspondences, the best reconstruction here is a proto-form *βula â
MRL nÉâkwÉt. Qat is constantly bullied by his eleven brothers, who are all called *TaÉ£aro: (57) *TaÉ£aro â 'a mythological figure, elder brother of the hero Qat':.
Jun 18, 2008 - He put (the flower) on his head, THEN set off. Il mit (la fleur) .... birds all took flight. .... more, for fear they might drown in the sea. Ils n'ont ...... down to the sea, and tied it FAST [lit. tied it well]. ... [Cf. Mota gov 'a
though /B/ and /G/ are always voiced,1 and /s/ always voiceless, voicing as such is not a ..... has raised concerns that arguments based on sonority, when accounting for syllable .... p+OG/? I will not attempt to answer this question here. But the fa
helps answer the question about the nature of the vowels in a word like ..... Our hypothesis proves its explanatory power in accounting not only for ..... spoken in south Santo by a handful of speakers (François 2002), also has ... Kêy (ta-galeg vÃ
toktok i fit long stret lanwis blong ples ia. Olsem, nem ... blong talemaot sipos yufala i agri mo i luk se i fit gut. Samfala leta ... 350 won vage tel hēñwewul tevëlime.
Jun 26, 2009 - From Agglutinative to Isolating: The .... constructions, and morphology in Squliq Atayal ... morphology in the AN languages of Nusa Tenggara.
helpem yumi blong save raetem lanwis, blong i no save lus long fyuja. ... 6 livise wön vage rue. 7 levure. 350 wõn vage tel hÄnwewul tevëlime. 8 levetel.
available; it also aims to convey a sense of the range of possibilities they offer .... former consultant, Dina Dabjen-Bailly, as well as new recordings of words and ...
Whereas the film was centred on the island of Motalava, the present musical anthology covers a broader area. François & Stern â Music of Vanuatu â cd+ebook ...
basic vocabulary lists in 179 distinct linguistic varieties (whether languages or dialects). About the ... English - were all introduced during European colonisation. ... Figure 1 provides a new reference map of Vanuatu's 138 languages (map created i
1sg Aorist includes /k/ as in Mwotlap nk, but this /k/ is a prefix to the verb. obvious when pronoun and verb are separated: Vera'a. Mwotlap. n s k- an. 1sg. PROSP ...