Reanalyzing Fataluku’s Postpositions as Serial Verbs

This paper presents a new analysis of a class of words previously analyzed as postpositions in the Papuan language Fataluku. Closer examination reveals that these words exhibit verbal characteristics, such as taking verbal morphology and occupying the same grammatical slots as action verbs. Addition...

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Main Author: Tyler M. Heston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Hawaii Press 2021-11-01
Series:Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52488