- Title
- Reconstruction of pronominals among the non-Pama-Nyungan languages
- Creator
- Harvey, Mark
- Relation
- The non-Pama-Nyungan languages of northern Australia: comparative studies of the continent's most linguistically complex region p. 475-513
- Relation
- Pacific Linguistics 552
- Publisher
- Pacific Linguistics
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2003
- Description
- This paper examines a number of issues that arise in the reconstruction of pronominals among the non-Pama-Nyungan languages. Blake reconstructed the following free pronoun set for the non-Pama-Nyungan languages. This reconstruction was based on a comparison of the free baselnominative pronoun paradigms from the non-Pama-Nyungan languages, for which information was available. There are recurrent similarities in parts of the forms of these free pronouns across the range of non-Pama-Nyungan languages, and I agree with Blake that a set of pronominals can be reconstructed for a proto-language ancestral to most if not all of the non-Pama-Nyungan languages. However, I argue that it is not in general possible to reconstruct free pronouns. Rather, I propose that it is paradigm of prefixes which may be reconstructed.
- Subject
- non-Pama-Nyungan languages; pronominals; free pronouns; baselnominative pronoun paradigms
- Identifier
- uon:5870
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/44747
- Identifier
- ISBN:085883538x
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