Reconstruction of pronominals among the non-Pama-Nyungan languages

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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