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The Grammaticalization of the Proximative in Tok Pisin.
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Romaine, Suzanne – Language, 1999
Discusses grammaticalization of "laik" in Tok Pisin, meaning "want/like/desire" (from English "like") and "klostu," meaning "near" (from English "close to") as markers of proximative. Shows although "klostu" was more generally a feature of Pacific Pidgin English and began to…
Descriptors: Creoles, Diachronic Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar
The Origin of NP Split Ergativity.
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Garrett, Andrew – Language, 1990
Discusses ergative case marking system in Anatolian branch of Indo-European in which neuters inflect ergatively and common-gender nouns inflect accusatively. Development from instrumental to ergative that occurred in prehistory of Gorokan languages of Papua New Guinea is also discussed. It is suggested that this process is a general mechanism for…
Descriptors: Case (Grammar), Diachronic Linguistics, Indo European Languages, Morphology (Languages)