The East Papuan languages: A preliminary typological appraisal
The East Papuan languages: A preliminary typological appraisal
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DOI：
10.2307/3623327
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Terrill, A
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作者：
Dunn, M;Reesink, G;Terrill, A
本文考察了美拉尼西亚群岛的巴布亚语言，以期考虑它们在类型学上的异同。东巴布亚语言被认为是美拉尼西亚岛原始居民所说语言的后裔，他们在5万年前到达该地区。大洋洲的南岛语言被认为是3500年前随着拉皮塔人一起进入该地区的。在这样的历史背景下，本文试图考察美拉尼西亚岛上分散的巴布亚语言之间的语言关系。为此，我们考察了各种结构特征，包括句法模式，如小句和名词短语的语序，以及小句结构的其他特征，代词的聚合结构，以及动词的形态结构。特别是，我们试图辨别语言之间的相似之处，这可能需要进行更密切的研究，以期确定某些或所有语言之间的遗传联系。此外，在研究语言之间的结构关系时，我们的目标是发现是否有可能区分这些语言的原始巴布亚元素和扩散的南岛元素。由于这是一项艰巨的任务，本文的目的只是为这些问题和相关问题的研究奠定基础。
This paper examines the Papuan languages of Island Melanesia, with a view to considering their typological similarities and differences. The East Papuan languages are thought to be the descendants of the languages spoken by the original inhabitants of Island Melanesia, who arrived in the area up to 50,000 years ago. The Oceanic Austronesian languages are thought to have come into the area with the Lapita peoples 3,500 years ago. With this historical backdrop in view, our paper seeks to investigate the linguistic relationships between the scattered Papuan languages of Island Melanesia. To do this, we survey various structural features, including syntactic patterns such as constituent order in clauses and noun phrases and other features of clause structure, paradigmatic structures of pronouns, and the structure of verbal morphology. In particular, we seek to discern similarities between the languages that might call for closer investigation, with a view to establishing genetic relatedness between some or all of the languages. In addition, in examining structural relationship between languages, we aim to discover whether it is possible to distinguish between original Papuan elements and diffused Austronesian elements of these languages. As this is a vast task, our paper aims merely to lay the groundwork for investigation into these and related questions.