The History of Proto-Oceanic *ma  

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EVANS, BETHWYN ; Ross, Malcolm

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Oceanic Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 40 no. 2 (Dec. 2001), page 269-290.

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We examine the history of the Proto-Oceanic (POc) stative verb derivative 'ma-, whose distribution in POc reconstructions raises certain problems, as POc lexical reconstructions with *ma- can be placed in four groups: (a) valency-decreasing *ma-; (b) fossilized reflexes of *ma- on stative verbs; (c) stative (adjectival) verbs that can be reconstructed in POc both with and without *ma-, with no obvious difference in meaning between the forms with and without the prefix; and (d) fossilized reflexes of *ma- on experiential verbs. Examination of the uses of non-Oceanic cognates of POc *ma- suggests that 'ma- already had three distinct functions in Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, one ancestral to (a) above, the second ancestral to (b) and (c), and a third (minor) use ancestral to (d). In function (a), *ma- remained somewhat productive in POc. In the other two functions, it had ceased to be productive. We pay attention especially to (b) and (c) in order to better understand the origin of the untidy distribution of *ma- on stative (adjectival) verbs.

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